Template:Did you know nominations/Palor people

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The result was: promoted by BlueMoonset (talk) 02:29, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Palor people[edit]

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... that according to a traditional account, the Ndut and the Palor people of Senegal split as the result of a disagreement between two brothers?

Created/expanded by Tamsier (talk). Nominated by Carabinieri (talk) at 20:31, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

The "Other names" header would really need to be written in full prose, as it is it's just in scattered fragments (and "etc" isn't really an encyclopaedic term here, if there are other names that be cited, add them, but don't hint that there might be). Aside from that I'd say we're good to go in terms of the article; though the hook and article seem to suggest different ethnic groups splitting from each other—as I took it, the article suggests that the Ndut are an offshoot of the Palor, whereas the hook gives the impression that the reverse is true. Perhaps phrasing it to avoid having an active verb ("X split from Y") and using a passive one ("X and Y split") would side step this entirely. GRAPPLE X 03:01, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

I've changed both the hook and the article accordingly. (By the way, Wikipedia's Manual of Style explicitly allows using "etc.")--Carabinieri (talk) 00:26, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

All seems in order now. And it wasn't the abbreviation that I felt was a problem, but the idea that using "etc" (or "et cetera") is an explicit statement of the information not being comprehensive, as it basically says "there's more information on the subject but it isn't included here". GRAPPLE X 00:34, 21 May 2012 (UTC)