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A fact from Martin Pistorius appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 February 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Is there any older evidence which can be trusted? There is someone who claims something and many articles about him. No trusted source. 84.242.96.142 (talk) 13:34, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
NPR is considered to be a pretty trustworthy source, as is The Scotsman and BBC. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 14:25, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Some time back I changed Martin's year of birth to 1975. We grew up together; I am a week older than he is. It was recently changed back to 1976. I'm changing it back again to 1975, with references here to the two major websites about him[1],[2] - where it says: "Martin Pistorius was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1975. At the age of twelve ..." RuralVirologist (talk) 17:21, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
