A fact from Zéna M'Déré appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 January 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Zéna M'Déré led a protest movement in Mayotte in which women tickled their political opponents, forcing them to comply with their demands?
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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 Eddie891 (talk) 23:02, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
... that Zéna M'Déré led a protest movement in Mayotte in which women tickled their political opponents until they left the island? Source: "In 1966, she became the leader of Mayotte's women's revolt, an insurrectionary movement in favor of the island's break with the Comorian authorities, which would allow Mayotte to remain part of the French Republic. These activists, sometimes referred to as the Chatouilleuses, notably employed tickle torture to compel Comorian officials to comply with their demands. The mobs of tickling women would attack pro-independence leaders, such as Saïd Mohamed Cheikh, while they were out walking and even physically force them onto planes that would take them off the island." [1]
Created by Bookworm-ce (talk). Self-nominated at 23:15, 18 January 2021 (UTC).[reply]
There are a few issues with the article:
[2] is a dead link (malango-actualite.fr doesn't seem to exist as a website, and the archive link isn't for a web archive tool)
The third paragraph (starting "Back at home") has no inline citations for it. Possibly the text is supported by the citations at the end of the fourth paragraph, but this isn't at all clear. So please can you add inline citations for that paragraph
I have added a few other citation needed tags where the information isn't in the sources, or there are no inline sources. For example, the final source doesn't mention 10€ note at all, only mentions the school, so a source is needed for the 10€ note statement
Overall, this does look like an interesting article, and an interesting hook. Once these issues are resolved, I can conduct a full re-review. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:24, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the helpful comments, Joseph! I've gone through and clarified the inline citations. I also added a couple other sources to replace the dead link. A few details that the French Wiki article had sourced to that dead link were difficult to confirm elsewhere, so I just cut those bits for now. Let me know if there's anything else I need to do! Bookworm-ce (talk) 18:25, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Also, the article does not say why the movement opposed independence for Mayotte - can you address this? Joofjoof (talk) 07:52, 22 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the suggestion Joofjoof! It's complicated, and this isn't my area of expertise by any means, but as I understand it it was a combination of internal jockeying for position between the different islands after the capital was moved, exacerbated by French government influence, and tied to perceived cultural differences between the islands. I've added some details to the article based on what good sources I could find, per your suggestion. Bookworm-ce (talk) 15:46, 22 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for fixing the above issues, Bookworm-ce. I will now conduct a full review below:
Y Article is long enough (3057 characters), new enough (created 15 January, nominated 18 January), and article is within policy after the modifications highighted above
Y Hook is short enough, interesting, in the article, and is well cited by [3] & [4]
Y QPQ exempt, as the user has 0 previous DYK nominations
Overall, this nomination now passes, congratulations. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:12, 22 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
There are a few issues with the article:
Article is long enough (3057 characters), new enough (created 15 January, nominated 18 January), and article is within policy after the modifications highighted above
Overall, this nomination now passes, congratulations. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:12, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
