Template:Did you know nominations/Baklahorani

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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 23:32, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Baklahorani

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... that although banned in 1943, the Baklahorani carnival (participants pictured), in Istanbul, revived after nearly 70 years?

Created/expanded by Alexikoua (talk), CeeGee (talk) Self nom at 10:08, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

New enough, length is good, hooks checks out.

However, there are some possible copyvio/close paraphrasing issues with the referenced New York Times article. The WP article states "Though the event was led by the Greek Orthodox community, the celebrations were public and inter-communal and brought everyone together for one final celebration in the Kurtuluş neighbourhood" while the New York Times article states "Though led by the Greek Orthodox community, the celebrations were public and inter-communal" and "brought everyone together for one final celebration in the Kurtulus district." If any possible close paraphrasing concerns could be addressed, then I think this Nom would be good to go. Shearonink (talk) 05:35, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

I've fixed the issue with the specific parts. It seems fine now.Alexikoua (talk) 21:53, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

I missed the Dec 16 adjustments of the text to clear up the previous close-paraphrasing concerns, everything is now good to go. Shearonink (talk) 18:27, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Significant close paraphrasing issues remain. For example, "Baklahorani was a colourful feature of Christian life in Istanbul until its last commemoration in 1941. After that, Greeks, along with the city’s other non-Muslim residents, faced social and financial discrimination" is verbatim from the source. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:53, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

I've made a carefull word by word check, unfortunately the issue remained on a couple of sentences, but it's corrected.Alexikoua (talk) 17:07, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

I found and fixed some additional instances of too-close wording, but I did not finish checking for this issue. --Orlady (talk) 05:44, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

I've spent some time reworking this article. I don't claim that the article is perfect, but I think the close-wording issues are resolved now. --Orlady (talk) 21:56, 16 January 2012 (UTC)