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Des Abbott

 * ... that Kookaburra player Des Abbott was the first Australian Aboriginal to represent Australia at the Olympic Games in men's field hockey?
 * Reviewed: Owen Wilkes
 * Comment: Articles moved/copied from my user space on 22 March 2012.

Created/expanded by LauraHale (talk). Self nom at 11:31, 22 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Symbol question.svg I have two concerns. When I click on the reference for the hook fact, nothing comes up. I find with article at http://www.stretcher.com.au/stretcher-articles/2008/8/12/dwyer-injury-scare-mars-kookas-romp/, but not sure what website that is. Also, there was a Des Abbott article that was deleted in order to make way for the move from userspace. When was it created? How big was it? --Soman (talk) 17:27, 22 March 2012 (UTC)


 * The article wasn't deleted so much as merged. The pre-merge, not edited on my user space version can be found here. It was Prose size (text only): 448 B (78 words) "readable prose size".  The version brought to DYK (which the drafting started on 7 March on my user space) is Prose size (text only): 3570 B (638 words) "readable prose size".  The hook fact is from newsbank, which is behind a paywall.  I don't don't anything about the stretcher.com.au site.  The article from The Age is not actually available on their website.  The text from the article as it relates to the hook says "Abbott, who is the first aboriginal male to represent Australia in hockey at the Olympics, was on the end of some brilliant work by Ockenden to score the Kookaburras' first goal after 14 minutes and was unmarked just moments after the re-start when Dwyer wove through the Canadian defence to set up his second. " --LauraHale (talk) 20:37, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Ok, that's fine. Length, date, hook checks out. Newsbank reference accepted AGF. --Soman (talk) 12:15, 23 March 2012 (UTC)