Talk:Abdallah Oumbadougou

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The result was: promoted by MeegsC (talk) 17:28, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

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• ... that Abdallah Oumbadougou, the "godfather of all the present-day Tuareg musicians in Niger", distributed illegal cassette tapes with ishumar music while in exile from 1984 to 1995? Source: for the quote, for the exile and the cassettes.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/2021 Texas power crisis.

Created by Drmies (talk). Self-nominated at 01:35, 21 February 2021 (UTC).

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

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: hi, Drmies, nice work. AGF on non-english sources. Looks like three of the albums under 'discography' are wanting for citations. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 20:06, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

I have to regularly remind Drmies about this. Uncle G (talk) 20:23, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

• It's been over a month. SL93 (talk) 01:41, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Left Drmies a final message; the nom can be closed if there's still no response within the next few days. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 04:48, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Narutolovehinata5, thank you for the ping. SL93, I kinda wish you had pinged me. I simply forgot. Also, citations for released records, well. Joofjoof has kindly added some links; perhaps they'll suffice. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 14:54, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

I will approve this. Drmies, I'm sorry for not pinging you, but I didn't feel it was needed at the time after you were notified on your talk page on March 22. SL93 (talk) 14:58, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Drmies Though, as someone who sometimes either forgets about things multiple times or misses important messages, I apologize. SL93 (talk) 15:05, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

SL93, I appreciate that. Ha, I thought my forgetfulness was the stuff of legends already. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 15:11, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Drmies, was it the casettes, or the music that was banned? From the source, I gathered it was the music itself. If so, I think the hook would be stronger if it said

• ... that Abdallah Oumbadougou, the "godfather of all the present-day Tuareg musicians in Niger", distributed cassette tapes of banned ishumar music while in exile from 1984 to 1995?

This gives it some context; otherwise, it sounds like he was just distributing pirated tapes. We could also still include "illegal" before cassette tapes, if you think that's relevant. MeegsC (talk) 07:55, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

MeegsC, I don't object to the change though I think that's overthinking it, and the text of the article certainly makes it clear enough, IMO. You can't easily "ban" music, but you can ban cassette tapes with that music on it. But OK--Eddie891, is the rephrased hook OK with you? Drmies (talk) 14:40, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

, yes, it seems to be virtually the same content as the original hook. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 14:48, 9 April 2021 (UTC)