A fact from Ouanga (film) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 January 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the director of the 1936 film The Love Wanga was threatened by having a wanga placed in his car?
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... that the director of the 1936 film Ouanga was threatened by male voodoo priests by placing a wanga in his car after he wanted to film their ceremony?
ALT0a: ... that the director of the 1936 film Ouanga was threatened by voodoo priests when they placed a wanga in his car?
ALT0b: ... that the director of the 1936 film Ouanga was threatened by voodoo priests?
Overall: Article meets eligibility criteria - 5x expanded and meets length expectations. Article is sourced and is written in a neutral tone. Please note that plot is not sourced explicitly, but, my understanding is that the movie itself will be the source for the plot and hence additional sources might not be required. Earwig's copyvio does not show any issues. Hooks are sourced. Clarification requested from the nominator -- the source (page 67) says that Terwilliger drew the ire of locals including the religious leaders ... ... and then there is a parenthesized text that says that Wanga was placed in the car. The two statements are not explicitly linked in that source. Also can that source says "local religious leaders" but that is being tied to "male voodoo priests" please can you explain? I am sure this can be explained from different portions of the three sources that you have linked - but, is not jumping out to me just as of yet. Hooks are interesting nevertheless and the QPQ is done. Passing back to the nominator for additional notes. Ktin (talk) 00:21, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Ktin I thought that the local religious leaders referred to the male voodoo priests because the film is about voodoo and only a wanga would be placed by people who practice voodoo. I guess that would be original research though even though it makes sense so I reworded it in the article to " was planned for the production crew to hire dancers and drummers from Haiti, but the plan did not happen due to the papaloi, male voodoo priests, complaining and local religious leaders threatening the director by placing a wanga in his car after he wanted to film their ceremony." How about for Alt0 to Alt0b, it could say local religious leaders instead of male voodoo priests. SL93 (talk) 00:33, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
SL93 Changing to "local religious leaders" is a good idea. I am good with that. Also, that source does not directly say that the religious leaders placed the Wanga. I do not know this topic -- but, is linkage because only religious leaders could place a Wanga? Ktin (talk) 00:40, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Ktin I changed it to "It was planned for the production crew to hire dancers and drummers from Haiti, but the plan did not happen due to the papaloi, male voodoo priests, objecting and the director was threatened with a wanga placed in his car." I suggest ALT2: ... that the director of the 1936 film Ouanga was threatened by having a wanga placed in his car? SL93 (talk) 00:43, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
SL93, I liked your earlier statement about the part which explained the Why i.e. because the director wanted to film their ceremonies. Do you want to restore that snippet? ALT2 looks good btw. Ktin (talk) 00:46, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Ktin I will keep that part out. Like you said about the source, the two sentences are not together. I don't want to stray into original research. SL93 (talk) 00:49, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Article meets eligibility criteria - 5x expanded and meets length expectations. Article is sourced and is written in a neutral tone. Please note that plot is not sourced explicitly, but, my understanding is that the movie itself will be the source for the plot and hence additional sources might not be required. Earwig's copyvio does not show any issues. Hooks are sourced. Clarification requested from the nominator -- the source (page 67) says that Terwilliger drew the ire of locals including the religious leaders ... ... and then there is a parenthesized text that says that Wanga was placed in the car. The two statements are not explicitly linked in that source. Also can that source says "local religious leaders" but that is being tied to "male voodoo priests" please can you explain? I am sure this can be explained from different portions of the three sources that you have linked - but, is not jumping out to me just as of yet. Hooks are interesting nevertheless and the QPQ is done. Passing back to the nominator for additional notes. Ktin (talk) 00:21, 12 December 2021 (UTC)