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POV[edit]

The article lacks a neutral point of view. For example, what are sentences like

an artistic jack-of-all-trades and master of none, who would always be very hard to categorize.
The life of Schoepen is also a lucky bag of funny and colourful anecdotes
... who was looking for local talent. Right away he recognized a promising performer ...
Apart from British artists, he is the first European (he was the first European but not really?)

doing in this article? The introduction (before the table of contents) also contains quite a few laudatory words. Compare it to the intro of the Elvis Presley article which contains a sufficient number of laudatory words (not too many, not too few, even considering that Elvis is an artist of greater cultural impact).

The only negative/difficult things in Bobbejaan's life are summarized in four sentences (one in the Beginning of career, three in Remarkable changes) and the sentence after that kicks in by saying Apparently there was no stopping him. The article does not significantly discuss the difficulties and problems which he surely must've experienced (e.g., what kind of operation/medical problem(s) caused him to lose his whistle, what songs, possibly unmentioned in the current article, didn't become a success, etc). - Simeon87 14:29, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Add The song was perceived as being anti-German, provoking a few Nazis who were present at the show to take him away. Except that "Nazi" is a political-polemical acronym, you don't refer to soldiers or policemen by their ruling political party. 41.150.175.139 (talk) 22:39, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Death[edit]

I added a source for death date. – Tinton5 21:11, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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