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Race?
editI'm wondering what ethnicity and/or cultural background Arnold Vosloo has. Does any one know, other than just speculation based on facial features and roles he has played? 69.92.82.104 23:38, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
- Possibly Dutch? Between his facial features, real skin tone (which is a lot lighter than when he plays middle-eastern charactersa), and his last name (the first two are just speculation ofcourse, but I'm pretty sure Vosloo is a Dutch name).JanderVK (talk) 08:53, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
- He is an Afrikaner. Roger (talk) 09:48, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Boetie?
editIt says that Arnold gained this name "no doubt from his break through role in South Africa" This is kindof speculation as the nickname Boet (or any variation of the word, which in Afrikaans means "Brother") is given to any South African male (primarily from an Afrikaans background) as a term of endearment. I think this should be removed as it is sort of original research or something. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.41.240.15 (talk) 16:35, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Alberton?
editHis father ran a drive-in theater, and Alberton.
Alberton is defined as a city situated on the southern part of the East Rand of the Gauteng Province in South Africa. Did his father really run a city in SA?
Date of birth
editI have removed a date of birth from the infobox and the lead. Each was cited to IMDb, but IMDb is not a reliable source. WP:IMDB We need a valid source for any date of birth added to a biography of a living person. WP:DOB Eddie Blick (talk) 19:02, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
- I have found a source that is considered to be more reliable and have added that. Captain Cornwall (talk) 01:01, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
- Rotten Tomatoes is also not a reliable source for WP:DOB because it's not a journalism site and it's main business is film criticism. If you check the last discussion as well as the current Rfc, you'll see that many other editors feel it's not suitable for BLP as it gives no information on where they get bio information from and for all we know like many other sites, they could have just web scraped that info from other sites without doing any fact checking. Kcj5062 (talk) 06:48, 5 August 2023 (UTC)