Haitian Vodou is currently a Philosophy and religion good article nominee. Nominated by Midnightblueowl (talk) at 17:37, 13 September 2023 (UTC) An editor has reviewed the article, and left comments on the review page. However, this editor has requested a second opinion either from a more experienced reviewer, or someone with more expertise on this subject, to gain further consensus that this article meets the good article criteria. In the meantime, editors are encouraged to revise the article based on the first reviewer's comments. Short description: Syncretic religion practised chiefly in Haiti and among the Haitian diaspora

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Explain this better pls cause i was curious if voodoo dolls are real or do they work none of this explains it i dont wanna know when they were invented or stuff you lied about your thumbnail:( 2601:204:300:8940:BCAD:C9D2:FB2C:B6F3 (talk) 01:09, 5 April 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

See Voodoo doll. Midnightblueowl (talk) 11:04, 5 April 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Vodou dolls are a symbol of health and care and not those clickabait videos where you can "curse" somebody. 45.58.90.197 (talk) 02:20, 6 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Haitian Vodou/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Vaticidalprophet (talk · contribs) 04:54, 9 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I've been looking at this article for a while with an eye to reviewing it. I can't guarantee the most prompt review -- it's a long article (over 500 individual references!) and I'm finishing up another GAN at the moment -- but I didn't want to see it sit too much longer. It's excellent, fascinating work.

A couple of comments on the lead, pending a more comprehensive combthrough later:

• Is there a reason to include IPA for variant spellings in the footnote, but not for the primary spelling in flowing text?

• There's no reason for it's omission, I can add the IPA in. Midnightblueowl (talk) 10:56, 12 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• The lead image is very detailed, but displayed at default size -- using the upright= parameter might help with seeing/understanding/accessibility.

• I looked at changing default image size for "upright=200px" and then "upright=300px" but it does not seem to make any difference from the standard default size, at least in my browser, so I've left it as the former. Midnightblueowl (talk) 11:13, 12 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The upright parameter takes a scaling factor (like 1.2 or 1.35), rather than a an absolute size in px. The upright parameter is recommended as it gels well with accessibly software. Absolute sizes don't. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 20:48, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• The oungan and manbo links are piped to variant spellings, but both articles seem to be titled at the same spellings used here.

• Well spotted; I've corrected this. Midnightblueowl (talk) 11:13, 12 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Vaticidalprophet 04:54, 9 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you for taking this review on, Vaticidalprophet. No rush in getting it finished. Midnightblueowl (talk) 10:56, 12 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Vaticidalprophet: Hoping that things are well with you. Did you have any further comments about this article at the present time? Midnightblueowl (talk) 16:56, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Argh -- sorry for not getting back to you. I've been very occupied offwiki for a few weeks, just when I was going to start looking seriously at this. It might be better to put this back in the queue, but I might be able to pick it back up at some point. Vaticidalprophet 20:06, 7 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Vaticidalprophet: - Apologies for the delay in my response, I've not been active on Wikipedia lately either. If you feel that you cannot finish the review, that's no problem; could you ask for a "second opinion" review, perhaps? Midnightblueowl (talk) 11:51, 20 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]