While rulers.org might not be the most reliable source, I am hesitant to remove it because it is the only source which mentions his death date. You'd think I would be able to find an obituary, but google news archive throws up nothing. Is there anything I'm skipping over? ~EDDY(
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23:39, 7 January 2011 (UTC)reply
Ehh... Rulers.org has been accurate in every other death date for world leaders which I have checked with other sources. I don't think it's reliable according to the rules of Wikipedia however. Do you know of any obituaries that I can look up? There has to be one out there. ~EDDY(
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00:43, 21 January 2011 (UTC)reply
Suggest having a map to locate Benin/Dahomey in Africa as well as the Bassila locator map?
"After the coup in 1965, President Christophe Soglo promoted Alley Chief of Staff of the Army." - do we have articles on the 1965 coup? and the Dahomian army? If so, linky. If not, red-linky…
"Kouandété launched another coup against Soglo on December 17…" another coup? I guess I'm not clear on what was the first coup?
I don't see what is unclear here. The article mentioned the first coup, in 1965. Dahomey probably holds the world record for most coups in a single country. :) ~EDDY(
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02:56, 8 January 2011 (UTC)reply
This is in the lead of the article, not the body. There is no other coup mentioned before this sentence, which is the first sentence of the second paragraph of the lead.
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"… where he was given a paratrooper insignia." kinda implies that he didn't earn the insignia, was this the case? If so, needs to make it clear why this is so, if not, needs rewording to remove the implication.
I've put the article on hold for seven days to allow folks to address the issues I've brought up. Feel free to contact me on my talk page, or here with any concerns, and let me know one of those places when the issues have been addressed. If I may suggest that you strike out, check mark, or otherwise mark the items I've detailed, that will make it possible for me to see what's been addressed, and you can keep track of what's been done and what still needs to be worked on.
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Talk16:06, 7 January 2011 (UTC)reply
Not really. I could try lending the Historical dictionary of Benin and hoping he's in there, but that would probably take a couple of weeks. ~EDDY(
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19:01, 27 January 2011 (UTC)reply
Let's comment the info out and leave it unknown and keep poking. Broad coverage is the GA standard, not comprehensive, and if we have no reliable source for the death date, better to leave it out pending finding a reliable source. THat's all that's standing in the way here.
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