Talk:Léopold Sédar Senghor

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Honors mixup

The section on honors is misleading in not differentiating clearly between the ASA and the NYASA. Those are two comletely seperate organisations, which nevertheless both award a "Distinguished Africanist Award" (confusingly so); ASA being (to my knowledge) the far more renowned. I found the cited IPS article of ref. 7 on an H-Net board (http://www.h-net.org/~africa/threads/litthread.html), and it deals indeed with the 1995(!) NYASA-award going to Senghor (confirmed by NYASA: http://www.nyasa.org/about/awards.html). If Senghor was ever awarded the 1994 ASA-Award, it would have been revoked afterwards, since the ASA-webpage lists its 1994 award as "May Not Have Been Awarded" (http://www.africanstudies.org/p/cm/ld/fid=26). Now that would indeed be interesting... but since I couldn't find anything else on this I'd rather think this is a mixup. Does anybody know anything on this? If not I'll double check and then change the section accordingly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.65.129.213 (talk) 14:27, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Request for evaluation

This article was added to the request to be evaluated list, but I would not recommend changing the rating from start at this time. I would recommend requesting a peer review for some detailed suggestions. Some good starting points to improve the article would be to expand the lead paragraph and improve the citations for the article, adding a "References" section. Reading through the help pages on what makes a good article will point you in the right direction. Looks like a potentially very interesting article. Nightngle 20:21, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Buried in Dakar

It seems that Léopold Sédar Senghor is not buried in Joal, but in Dakar

[1] (pdf, note 14 page 15)
[2] "Dans l'après-midi, le corps de Léopold Sédar Senghor sera enterré au cimetière catholique de Bel-Air à Dakar"
[3] "Léopold Sédar Senghor a été enterré à Dakar, dans l’intimité, aux côtés de son fils Philippe Maguilien Senghor"

--ArséniureDeGallium 13:21, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Translation

I translated most parts of the french article into english. Please feel free to offer any comment on the translation as it was my first experience at it. Claveau 22:32, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

essay like

most encyclopedic articles dont have a summary and unles we're french or translate the poem it's kinda useless. Needs work but there are plenty of articles in that catagory now isn't there?

It was already there when I added the translation from the French article, it might not be necessary so feel free to delete it I guess... Claveau 09:16, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sir?

The article began with "Sir Léopold Sédar Senghor ..." That must have been a mistake, surely? I took the "Sir" out, anyway. Andrew Dalby 12:22, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Vive La France?

There is no mention of this in the source listed for this claim:

Front Stalag 230 was reserved for colonial troops captured during the war. German soldiers wanted to execute him and the others the same day they were captured, but they escaped this fate by yelling Vive la France, vive l'Afrique noire! ("Long live France, long live Black Africa!") A French officer told the soldiers that executing the African prisoners would dishonour the Aryan race and the German Army. In total, Senghor spent two years in different prison camps, where he spent most of his time writing poems.

The source does not mention which camp he was interned in or how he escaped. Where did this information come from? Because it did not come from the "Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East" Information on Senghor can be found on page 626. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.24.148.8 (talk) 16:06, 21 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The whole story sounds like the usual hatemongering against Germans. I mean Senghor even read Frobenius in captivity, Blacks did play in German movies of that time etc. --41.151.47.195 (talk) 17:15, 9 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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An interesting article. The lack of citations keeps the rating as "Start", this is not a negative but an opportunity to add content that will expand and enrich this article. It is certainly notable and a valuable addition to the Wikipedia biographies.Nightngle 20:40, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 20:40, 19 October 2006 (UTC). Substituted at 22:40, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Requested move 8 May 2017

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The result of the move request was: No Consensus.The arguments from both the sides are persuasive enough.(non-admin closure) Winged Blades^Godric 09:32, 1 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Léopold Sédar Senghor → Léopold Senghor – The common name is Léopold Senghor. While some sources do refer to him as Léopold Sédar Senghor, the majority of sources refer him as just Léopold Senghor. Source - [4] (Encyclopædia Britannica), [5] (The Guardian), [6] (NYT), [7] (The Telegraph), [8] (The Economist) and [9] (Washington Post). Jupitus Smart 07:08, 8 May 2017 (UTC)--Relisting. Winged Blades^Godric 09:03, 17 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per WP:TITLECHANGES plus usage which seems to be about even according to this Google Ngram. (I realize some sources use both in the same article.) Even the cited sources are not consistent (e.g. The Guardian, Washington Post). — AjaxSmack 21:42, 15 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support. The sources cited are from high quality publications, suggesting they favour the shorter form. Furthermore, if the two titles are equally prevalent, as in the ngram mentioned above, then we should choose the shorter form per WP:CONCISE. Finally, I'm not sure what WP:TITLECHANGES has to do with this. That seems to be just a section about how the RM process works, there's nothing there that would tell us to favour one form or the other here. Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 09:48, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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