Talk:Chemirocha

A fact from Chemirocha appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 April 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Kipsigis people referred to American singer Jimmie Rodgers as "Chemirocha" and they had a folk song about him?

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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: promoted by Cielquiparle (talk) 21:56, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the Kipsigis people referred to American singer Jimmie Rodgers as "Chemirocha" and they had a folk song about him? Source: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-magnificent-cross-cultural-recordings-of-kenyas-kipsigis-tribe
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bishopcroft

Converted from a redirect by GDuwen (talk). Self-nominated at 22:00, 1 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Chemirocha; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

- I found this subject to be very interesting. The article is well written, long-enough, and new enough. Spot-checked the NPR cites. Not seeing "nterpretations offered by the villagers for the of the word "Chemirocha" included it being "slow, nice music", as well as "Jimmie" being used to refer to a "tough guy"" in the print portion of the NPR source. Is it in the video section? I started to watch the video but didn't have enough time to get very far into it. Also, I'm not sure that Atlas Obscura is RS. Hog Farm _Talk 16:57, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The interpretations of the villagers of the term comes from the Atlas Obscura piece, but they took that from the end of the NPR video. I didn't see an issue with using them as a source since the piece seemed to be properly written, and the website did not appear suspicious to me (I also checked the perennial sources page, and I didn't find any mention of it over there whatsoever.) Other than that, the hook is sourced with the NPR piece.--GDuwenHoller! 16:19, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'll open a discussion at WP:RSN to sort this out. Hog Farm _Talk 19:48, 10 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Hog Farm: After seeing the result of the discussion you opened about Atlas Obscura, I removed the citations. The contributor of Atlas Obscura pretty much just wrote a piece based on the NPR report and the mini documentary that they posted on their website. We can do without it.--GDuwenHoller! 14:19, 12 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

With the unreliable source gone, I think we're good to go here. Hog Farm _Talk 16:28, 12 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]