Talk:M-Beat

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by PrimalMustelid talk 17:20, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

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• ... that DJ Rap reported receiving a month of death threats after playing M-Beat's "Incredible" in spite of a ban by the "Jungle Committee"? Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pubk9IvVy8M - clip from a Channel 5 documentary
  • ALT1: ... that Sinéad O'Connor personally invited M-Beat to remix her single "Fire on Babylon" after meeting him backstage at Top of the Pops? Source: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/14/she-spoke-truth-to-power-always-sinead-oconnors-affinity-with-black-music-and-liberation
  • ALT2: ... that despite having three UK Top 20 singles to his name, the jungle musician M-Beat was made homeless aged 21? Source: https://djmag.com/longreads/m-beat-return-jungle-pioneer
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Rex Parker

5x expanded by Launchballer (talk). Self-nominated at 13:26, 13 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/M-Beat; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• Do I understand it correctly that Junior Hart stated that he first met M-Beat by accident in 1989 and helped him because of being impressed by his drumming, while actually Junior Hart is M-Beat's father? (Just a question, I'm not planning to review the article yet.) --Moscow Connection (talk) 02:15, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Not quite, Music Week asserted in its own words that that was how they met. I've been working on the principle that he disappeared for several years.--Launchballer 07:14, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Unlikely he had disappeared. He was about 13 in 1989. And he played in a school group. And according to the next section, he still lived with his parents at 21. (No, I'm not reviewing this.) --Moscow Connection (talk) 12:23, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Right. Well, for any future reviewer, 'disappeared' was the wrong word, and I meant Junior in any case - he could very well have not found out Marlon was his until later.--Launchballer 12:50, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer needed. Z1720 (talk) 02:27, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

• QPQ good. Article was 5x expanded on day of nomination, meets DYK length requirements. Generally well-written, some promo-esque language and a few typos that I'm sure nominator is planning to trim, but not 'bad' for what is expected of a DYK.
  As for the hooks, they all check out with sources that are also used inline, but alt2 isn't stated in the article. The article doesn't give a year for his being made homeless (to allow a reader to see it was after his hits), nor does it explicitly say he had three hits at the time. I suppose readers can work it out with the birth year and the years of the hits, but it could be clearer - I'm not advocating for adding the hook fact (or something like it) to the article verbatim in a way that reads unnaturally, but it could be clearer.
  I personally think alt1 is the best, due to the lack of clarity with alt2 and the fact alt0 is more about DJ Rap (and, when reading the article, it becomes clear it's also more about General Levy) than M-Beat. I might like to hear about his return to music, but alt1 is still good and is interesting without being clickbait, so that's a positive. Kingsif (talk) 17:06, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Source says "Within months of collaborating with ’90s pop-soul megastars Jamiroquai (on the hit ‘Do You Know Where You’re Coming From’), he was homeless". I've updated the article accordingly.--Launchballer 17:26, 8 March 2024 (UTC)