Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

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  This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 24 January 2019 and 16 May 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Thatgirljessie. Peer reviewers: Sangbin1999.

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Possible sources for potential overhaul

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Making a note of these so I don't have to find them later, or so someone else can use them:

Ian.thomson (talk) 04:19, 28 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

More Sources/Future Edits

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I'm planning on making significant edits to this page for a class research project. In addition to the sources suggested above, I will look into these books:

  • Anderson, Jeffrey E., 1974, and Ebook Library. 2015. The voodoo encyclopedia: Magic, ritual, and religion. Santa Barbara, California: Abc-Clio, LLC.
  • Cosentino, Donald, 1941, and University of California, Los Angeles. Fowler Museum of Cultural History. 1995. Sacred arts of Haitian Vodou. Los Angeles, Calif: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
  • Ramsey, Kate. 2011. The spirits and the law: Vodou and power in Haiti. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Martin Kameelah L., 1978. 2016. Envisioning black feminist voodoo aesthetics: African spirituality in American cinema. Lanham: Lexington Books.

The article is very bare right now, so I'd like to give more background and context about Haitian Vodou. Also, I think it would be interesting to add sections about notable Mambos in history. I've seen a few things about Mambos outside of Haiti, in places like New York City with Haitian immigrants, so maybe I could talk about that diaspora as well. If you have any suggestions, please let me know! Mlfisher (talk) 20:40, 19 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

Possible Sources and Edits

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Hello,

I will be making major edits to this page for a class project. Listed below are some sources that I would like to use for the article, as well as the improvements that I hope to make. I also plan on removing the information from voodoureligion.com since it is not a reliable source.

Suggested Improvements:

  • Include some background information about Vodou in Haiti
  • Discuss the historical origins of the Mambo in Haiti
  • Compare and contrast the role of the Mambo with the male counterpart
  • Include subheadings describing the differences between the two ranks of the Mambo (high priestess and junior priestess)
  • Provide examples of well-known Mambos in Haiti
  • Incorporate more reliable sources

Bibliography:

  • Brown, Karen McCarthy. Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn. The University Press Group Ltd, 2001.
  • Cosentino, Donald. Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1995.
  • Rhodes, Jewell Parker. Voodoo Dreams: a Novel of Marie Laveau. Picador USA, 1995.
  • Watkins, Angela Denise. Mambos, Priestesses, and Goddesses: Spiritual Healing through Vodou in Black Womens Narratives of Haiti and New Orleans. University of Iowa, 2014. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thatgirljessie (talkcontribs) 13:27, 2 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

Notes about tag

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This isn't bad, but there are some portions here that need to be tweaked to better fit Wikipedia's writing style. I'm also concerned over the use of Oxygen and Slate as sources for this, as there are most likely better sourcing out there. There's also an essay on here that's questionable since there's not a lot of information about its reliability (ie, have others referenced it and where it was used). Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:54, 4 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

Shalor (Wiki Ed), I don't understand why Slate would be considered an inferior source for the information that Leveau was used as a character on American Horror Story, or that she was portrayed by Bassett. Unless Slate is considered unreliable, then there shouldn't be any conflict here; it's a perfectly adequate secondary source. Using Oxygen for information about an Oxygen program is dicier, but Slate? I've removed that from the copyedit request, and (as I understand it), replacing sourcing isn't a matter for a copyeditor, so a different template should be used for the sourcing issues mentioned. one of Tori Spelling's autobiographies uncharted terriTORI has a section on her interaction with Mama Lola that was filmed for the show in question starting on page 135 (page 139 mentions filming for the television show) and continues into the 140s: [1]. That might be sufficient, though the available preview pages don't mention whether those scenes ever aired. BlueMoonset (talk) 02:58, 5 June 2019 (UTC)Reply
  • For some reason I was thinking that Slate wasn't seen as a super great source on here. I was more curious as to whether or not these would really be the strongest possible sources for this article. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:55, 5 June 2019 (UTC)Reply