A fact from Denys Dobson appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 August 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that after Englishrugby international forward Denys Dobson was killed by a charging rhinoceros, he was reportedly said to always have had "a weak hand off"?
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Personally I'd be more inclined to go by the contemporary reports - there is no requirement for references to be online. However, the references to the newspaper reports aren't realy up to scratch at the moment, we really need article titles and ideally page number. On the subject of online access, I note the SMH archive should be available online formt eh National Library of Australia by the end of the year http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/selected_newspapers/Future_Titles.html whic should help resolve this. David Underdown (talk) 08:22, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I'd agree with going with the contemporary reports, but I've yet to read any of them. Also if the papers in question state the guy's name as Harry, then as a point of contention it can be referenced to nail it down. I look forward to the archiving of the papers from the LoA. FruitMonkey (talk) 17:15, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
