Template:Did you know nominations/Burkina Faso coups

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 Fuebaey (talk) 18:02, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

1989 Burkinabé coup d'état attempt, 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état, 1980 Upper Voltan coup d'état, 1982 Upper Voltan coup d'état

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... that Burkina Faso has seen coups d'état in 1966, 1980, and 1982, and unsuccessful attempts in 1983 and 1989?

Comment: The 1983 coup attempt article isn't long enough, but it could be expanded to be.

Hm, I'm not really sure it could be, given how little available information there is. I'd also like to note that there were additional full coups in 1983 and 1987, which yet lack articles. Stamboliyski (talk) 12:16, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Created by Stamboliyski (talk). Nominated by Innotata (talk) at 06:45, 15 November 2014 (UTC).

Confirming that the 4 articles are all new enough, big and enough, and created by the nominated person. The fact of the hook is confimred by these articles. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 15:09, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

1966, 1980, 1982 and 1989 article appear free of copyright infringements. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:51, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Hook is short enough, and although the particular book references used are not available to me, I can tell by other reliable on line books that it is confirmed. OK to proceed. If you want mention of the other coups, they could be listed but not linked in the hook. However that would mean that the facts would still have to be confirmed in one of the articles. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 01:29, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

The 1980 and 1982 articles have a few paragraphs lacking at least one citation, per DYK rules. Yoninah (talk) 14:36, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

OK, these are just paragraphs drawing on other articles for information, so I'll copy sources over; I don't have access to most of the sources used by the articles' creator. —innotata 05:38, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. Restoring tick based on Graeme Bartlett's review. Yoninah (talk) 12:58, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Hook has been pulled from Queue 3 by Allen3 per the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#Close_paraphrasing_in_Q3 (permalink). G S Palmer (talk • contribs) 17:11, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
To expand: I am concerned that some of the phrasings in these articles are too close to those of their sources. For example, compare "the President finally acknowledges the country's dependence on Western aid for survival" in the 1980 article with "President Lamizana acknowledged Upper Volta's dependence on foreign aid for survival". There are also issues with sourcing: the 1982 article cites pages 51 and 52 of this source, but page 52 is blank and 51 has nothing to do with the material being cited. Similar problems also occur in the 1966 and 1980 articles. Nikkimaria (talk) 17:34, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

You should consider fixing these issues, then. They are no doubt the result of me not speaking English as a first language, and I really don't have time to fix them at this point. Stamboliyski (talk) 17:46, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Marking nomination for closure as unsuccessful. The creator is unwilling to fix the issues, and the nominator isn't up to dealing with what has been discovered. These issues—close paraphrasing and incorrect referencing—are too serious to do anything else. BlueMoonset (talk) 23:15, 12 January 2015 (UTC)