Talk:Kadhem Sharif

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Article requests :
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Assess : newly added and existing articles, maybe nominate some good B-class articles for GA; independently assess some as A-class, regardless of GA status.
Cleanup :
* Sport governing body (this should-be-major article is in a shameful state)
* Field hockey (History section needs sources and accurate information - very vague at the moment.)
* Standardize Category:American college sports infobox templates to use same font size and spacing.
* Sport in the United Kingdom - the Popularity section is incorrect and unsourced. Reliable data is required.
* Fix project template and/or "to do list" Current version causes tables of content to be hidden unless/until reader chooses "show."
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Update : List of world sports championships
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- Translate the page of sport in each country from corresponding article in other language Wikipedia to English Wikipedia which was marked in red.
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A fact from Kadhem Sharif appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 July 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Iraqi world-class wrestler and weightlifter Kadhem Sharif attempted to use a sledgehammer to bring down the statue of Saddam Hussein at Baghdad's Firdos Square?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/July.

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Anti-American

I read somewhere that he now regrets the fall of Saddam. But I can't find the article, anyone else have any info?

why "the japanese"?

This article mentions that his nickname is "The Japanese", but gives no explanation as to the origin of this name. If he has some kind of Japanese ancestry then that should be mentioned, if only to explain the origin of the name. --86.135.87.146 (talk) 18:15, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Olympian

if he was on the national team, does this mean he was an Olympic competitor? And in wrestling as well as weightlifting? If so, either way, the categories for Olympics lifters (or wersetlers) by year and country should be added, and the text should be specific about which year and which sport and maybe what size lifts, and what his records were, if known....Skookum1 (talk) 05:49, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]