Talk:Sakhela Buhlungu

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The result was: promoted by Cielquiparle (talk) 17:34, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

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• ... that Vice Chancellor Sakhela Buhlungu's anti-corruption efforts at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa lead to two failed assassination attempts? Source: " 'The suspects started firing gunshots at the driver. The vice-chancellor was not in the car. The suspects later escaped in their getaway vehicle. Police have registered a murder case for investigation,' said Kinana....
  "Buhlungu’s vision of a clean governance through clamping down on entrenched corruption and fraud at the embattled institution is believed to be one of the reasons for the latest incident. Last year police opened cases of attempted murder after gunmen fired shots at Buhlungu and a senior official’s home in March." [1]
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5x expanded by Patar knight (talk) and Jono1011 (talk). Nominated by Patar knight (talk) at 08:18, 19 January 2023 (UTC).

• Reviewing. Larataguera (talk) 12:09, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
• Please make that "led to" instead of "lead to". --Metropolitan90 (talk) 22:23, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

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• DYK check says the article is still classified as a stub. Please give the article a non-stub rating and be sure to remove any remaining stub templates.
• As observed by Metropolitan90, we should have Alt1: ... that Vice Chancellor Sakhela Buhlungu's anti-corruption efforts at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa led to two failed assassination attempts?
• I will also suggest Alt2: ... that Sakhela Buhlungu's anti-corruption efforts at the University of Fort Hare led to two failed assassination attempts?
  • I prefer short simple hooks, so I think this one's slightly better, but I don't feel strongly about it if you prefer Alt1. Larataguera (talk) 23:39, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

@Larataguera: Thanks for the review. I've reclassified as C-class on the talk page template, which hopefully resolves the stub issue. I would actually suggest:

Alt3: ... that Sakhela Buhlungu's anti-corruption efforts at the University of Fort Hare led to a failed assassination attempt that killed his bodyguard?

I made a major edit - feel free to take another look if you want to - and sources were open about describing the 2023 attack as an attempted assassination, but not the 2022 attack despite an attempted murder case being opened. Better to err on the side of caution here. As for the South Africa, that was largely out of concern that people might now know where the University of Fort Hare is, but the shorter version is fine as well. -- Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 22:34, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

@Patar knight:, looks good. I like Alt3, and I have struck the others for clarity. I reviewed your recent edit, and everything looks fine as far as I can tell. Thanks. Larataguera (talk) 00:36, 28 January 2023 (UTC)