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Nominator: Vanderwaalforces (talk · contribs) 00:36, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
Reviewer: Thebiguglyalien (talk · contribs) 18:48, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
Hello! I'll get a review posted this week. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 18:48, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
Vanderwaalforces, I checked through two of the sources, and the referencing in this article is not great. A lot of the content cited to Egharevba (1968) is either unsupported (presumably it's taking credit for the sources next to it), or is copied with just a few words switched. A lot of the content cited to Walker (2006) is entirely unsupported. There's also one source that's self-published and shouldn't be in the article. Even for a longer article with many opportunities for an error, this would be too many referencing issues. With only a few hundred words, I'd expect the source review to basically turn up nothing. I'm going to close the review so the article can be reworked. I hope to see this make it to GA in the future once the references are fixed up! Thebiguglyalien (talk) 07:21, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
References:
Egharevba (1968):
the Ga people maintained their cultural and linguistic ties with the Benin people
expanded Benin's rule to the Ga region of present-day Ghana
Agbodo declared that his remains would be interred in his residence at Ogbeto the source He often boasted that when he died his corpse would be buried in his house at Ogbe
he instructed his sons to place his body in the second impluvium of his houseto He ordered his sons to put his body in the second impluvium of his house
The pond was filled by Oba Akenzua II between 1935 and 1937, and the Benin Divisional Council Public Works Department was built over it in 1949to The pond was filled up by the present Oba, Akenzua II, between 1935 and 1937 and the Benin Divisional Council Public Works Department was built over it in 1949
Walker (2006):
Udagbedo was born in Benin City, the capital of the Benin Empire.
He was the second son of Oba Oguola, the fifth Oba of Benin, and the brother of Oba Edoni, the sixth Oba of Benin.
Udagbedo became the seventh Oba of Benin
He inherited a kingdom that had established trade connections with the Saharan states to the north and the Yoruba kingdoms to the westseems vaguely OR-ish, as it just mentions that those were trade connections they had, not that they're ones that were relevant to Udagbedo's reign. The Portugal trade seems more relevant to Udagbedo, but it's not mentioned at all.
He encouraged the cultivation– It only mentions that these are the things that they traded, not that he personally made any effort to increase their cultivation.
He also promoted the export– Same issue.
leopard skins, soap, and later, palm oilto leopard skins, soap and later, palm oil – There aren't that many ways to rephrase a list, but copying the "and later" phrasing changes it from necessary similarity to a copy-and-paste.
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