Template:Did you know nominations/Douga

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 07:31, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Douga

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... that the Mandinka douga, the "dance of the vulture" described in 20th-c African literature, may go back to Sundiata, and reach across to American Gullah culture, buck dance, and the minstrel show? [1], [2], [3], [4]

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bruus.

Created by Drmies (talk). Self-nominated at 02:56, 14 July 2020 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Very nice article. Learned something today. Axem Titanium (talk) 20:02, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

- Adequate sourcing comment: Yes, but some of the verification is not obvious because of alternative spellings between the references and the wikipedia article text (e.g. Malinke vs Mandinka, Sunjata vs Sundiata Keita). For example, searching for "Sundiata Keita" in ref #3 turns up zero results, but I happened to notice the word Sunjata and it turns out to redirect to Sundiata Keita. Not sure what an elegant solution is for this but it's worth mulling over. Further, some of the references cover large page ranges (e.g. ref #1, 2) or highly diverging page ranges (e.g. ref #3, 7) which makes it more difficult to verify the very specific claims in the article which generally only refer to a particular line or two in the reference. WP:IBID would help here.
Axem Titanium, thank you for the review. About the references--ref 1 is a journal article, and we typically cite the page numbers for the entire journal. I have added the page numbers for the claims. I can't do anything about the page numbers for the books, and it's not that many pages: all the styles in which I've published discourage "ibid". As for the names/spellings, you'd be surprised, maybe, how many spellings there are for Sundiata, for instance. In my writing I try to stick to the Wikipedia convention, but that's just one convention, and the different spellings can't even agree on the accent aigu in various words. I have "Malinke" in the article, but that's in a direct quote, and the Azodo article uses "Son-Jara" instead of Sundiata. There's really nothing I can do about that. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 21:09, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
- The edits help a lot with finding the referenced statement. The various spellings issue is a bit outside of scope for a DYK review but I thought I'd bring it up anyway. Looks good to go! Axem Titanium (talk) 21:16, 15 July 2020 (UTC)