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This article has been mentioned by multiple media organizations: "Dale Steyn asks for help to edit 'false' information about him on Wikipedia". India Today. February 5, 2020. Retrieved February 5, 2020. South Africa pacer Dale Steyn on Tuesday took to Twitter to say that some important piece of information after the 36-year-old bowler was not true on the Wikipedia. "Dale Steyn calls on Google to change 'false' information on Wikipedia". The Indian Express. February 5, 2020. Retrieved February 5, 2020. While several users pointed out that Google has nothing to do with Wikipedia, another section reminded him that anyone is free to edit on the page. Aditya Sahay (February 5, 2020). "Dale Steyn takes to Twitter seeking correction of wrong info on Wikipedia, gets trolled instead". Times Now. Retrieved February 5, 2020. Hence, Twitter users got together to roast the South African speedster with some epic responses. Check out some replies below:

There is almost no information on this page. Why does it exist?

How this stub and a lot of others came about is a long story and I won't go into it. There are some 450 cricket articles of < 250 bytes around at the moment. See the list at User:CricketBot/substubs. We, at WP:Cricket, are working on them. 50 odd have already been expanded. The rest, including Steyn, will be done in a few weeks. Tintin 02:51, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The section headed "Controversies" only mentions a single 'controversy' -- when Dale Steyn was fined 100% of his match fee for spitting at another player in a Test match. It goes without saying, then, that if this section is to remain in this article, it shouldn't be titled "Controversies" when it only mentions one incident. The more important question, though, is whether this section should remain in the article at all. Not that I want to say spitting at another player is trivial and irrelevant, but surely most players get fined some of their match fees at some point in their career - do we really need to mention every such incident? At the very least, maybe the section could be renamed "Spitting incident" or "Spitting controversy" or something like that, to better indicate the actual content of the section. And if the section is to remain, it should probably be expanded to show clearly why this incident is so worthy of inclusion on his page (e.g. was there a huge fallout from the scandal, with lots of pundits furious at his behaviour? was that degree of punishment very rare, or unusually harsh, or whatever? seems to me like 100% of match fee fines are relatively rare, but is it rare enough to warrant such prominent mention on his page?)99.120.41.190 (talk) 09:18, 21 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This edit changed the height. Neither the original nor the change are cited, so it needs to be checked out. Greenman (talk) 15:40, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

In response: Removed uncited, constantly changed (it was now at 1.76, go figure) and trivial detail per WP:V. 107.190.33.254 (talk) 13:52, 6 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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