Talk:Jason Akermanis

Poll - How do you spell Akermanis's nickname?
This has been a bone of contention for a while now. So far I've seen "Akker", "Acka", "Akka", "Arka", and "aka". I think we should have a poll to set this is stone.

As 'Aka's' book spells it as 'Aka", I vote "aka". ~=~Scalene~=~

No poll required - if Aka spells it "Aka" on the cover of his book then that's definitive.--The Brain of Morbius 11:25, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

POV
"Akermanis may retire from AFL, after a recent email controversy where Akermanis attacked coach Leigh Matthews. Akermanis, being one of the most disliked players in the AFL, has had a season shrouded in controversy and many AFL supporters won't be disappointed if he did decide to hang up the boots."

If this doesn't breach WP:NPOV, I don't know what would. I'm removing this bias-filled paragraph. Feel free to re-add it if you can provide concrete proof Akermanis is so reviled. QazPlm 12:21, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Person from Queensland?
By what definition? He's from Mildura, which is in Victoria. Unless, of course, the definition is where one has spent the majority of one's life. Peter1968 14:36, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Croatian Australian?
Should he be categorised under "Croatian Australians"?

His biological father is a Denis Dezdjek, Dezdjek being a Croatian name. Misb 15:05, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Akermanis is a Latvian name aswell. So Latvian Australian?

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Acker DID NOT say "stay in the closet"...
...A headline writer did. A careful read of the article shows this. Acker would not have written the headline. That's not how newspapers work. This must be fixed somehow. HiLo48 (talk) 08:43, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
 * What do you suggest? The quoted text does neatly express his meaning, and the quote -marks could be considered "words as words" in their signification. Please see Manual_of_Style for whether italics rather than quote-marks should be used here. Tony   (talk)  09:11, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
 * HiLo is perfectly right: thanks for pointing this out. I've substituted the wrongly acribed quotation with similar text that Akermanis actually did utter. Tony   (talk)  10:58, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Eggs Thrown
Curious as to the rationale for removing the reference to the egg-throwing incident, as it is mentioned in the linked article for that section (in the third paragraph of the story). There was a factual error - it was his house, not his person, that was egged, but surely that should have been corrected rather than removed outright? I've reinstated that section, slightly rewritten for greater accuracy. Lokicarbis (talk) 23:47, 27 May 2010 (UTC)


 * It's difficult to write about incidents like that in Wikipedia. The newspaper source speaks of the egg throwing being "an apparent angry response to his Stay in the closet newspaper column". It has cautiously used the word apparent because we do not know exactly why the eggs were thrown. The throwers may have just been fans of another club, or neighbours who don't like his noisy parties, or..... To say in the article that the egg throwing "graphically illustrated" hostility, etc, is not supported by the reference. (Even though it may be true.) HiLo48 (talk) 02:20, 28 May 2010 (UTC)


 * You're right - I hadn't picked up on the phrasing of the article, and included their speculation as fact. Mea culpa, and glad someone caught what I missed. Lokicarbis (talk) 03:54, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

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