Talk:Koffi Olomide
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Birth date edit
In the French speaking world monsieur Olomide is born in 1956, while according to the English Mr. Olomide is two years younger. Does anybody know?
Cleanup Tags edit
The section about Olomide's personal life, specifically his family, requires citations (as already noted). The names of his children especially are poorly copyedited, and this combined with the fact that they are not "normal" names, makes me more suspicious of vandalism than normal. Right now, I do not have the time to see if I can find sources for this, and there is a distinct possibility that the best sources are in French, a language I don't speak. I'll try to come back around to this later Otatia (talk) 00:42, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
- Given the BLP concerns, I'm moving the content here:
Koffi Olomide is reported to be very intelligent and wealthy.
[1]He is married and is the father of seven children: Nzau Twengi Aristote, Elvis, Minou Miss Univers, Didi Stone Nike, Rocky, Del pirlo Mourhino and Saint James Rolls.[1] Olomide's father, who is currently in poor health, lives in Paris, France. Olomide's mother lives in Kinshasa and works as a jewellery dealer in the city's Zando Market. Koffi has an elder brother, Johnny Ko, who also lives in Paris. A younger brother, Tutu Roba, lives in London, England.[2]
- Fwiw, the children's names are listed in a blog (above, I've corrected the placement of the ref). I'm not sure the other details about his family and their state of health, gleaned from a newspaper article] dispelling a rumours prompted by a practical joke, are in the spirit of WP:BLP. The first sentence about intelligence (and wealth) seems superfluous, especially given the ==Education== section. 86.157.144.92 (talk) 16:41, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
References
OLADI edit
INNOSS — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.243.30.62 (talk) 19:41, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
Did you know nomination edit
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: rejected by reviewer, closed by Dying talk 05:41, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
- ... that Koffi Olomide was the first African music artist to sell out concert halls in Paris, such as Olympia and the Accor Arena? Source: Brennan, Timothy (2020). "Secular Devotion: Afro-latin Music and Imperial Jazz". Verso Books. ISBN 9781789604214.
- Reviewed:
Created by EdwinAlden.1995 (talk). Self-nominated at 23:03, 23 September 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Koffi Olomide; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
This article, while long enough, does not qualify for DYK because within the past seven days it is not newly created, expanded fivefold, or approved as a Good Article. While the nominator has done a major expansion to the article, it has taken over two and a half months to do a fivefold expansion, and the rules in that regard, while having a couple of days flex from the seven days, certainly do not stretch to anything like sixty-seven days beyond. I'm very sorry about that, since a great deal of work has been done on it. There is one chance for the article to qualify for DYK in the future: if it is nominated for and approved by an independent reviewer as a Good Article, it can then be nominated for DYK within seven days of the GA approval. Best of luck! BlueMoonset (talk) 01:26, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
