Talk:Global Music Diplomacy Initiative

Global Music Diplomacy Initiative is currently a Politics and government good article nominee. Nominated by W9793 (talk) at 22:27, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

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A fact from Global Music Diplomacy Initiative appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 December 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a video of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken performing "Hoochie Coochie Man" at the September 2023 launch of the Global Music Diplomacy Initiative (pictured) went viral?

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton talk 15:48, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken performs during the Global Music Diplomacy Initiative Launch

... that the U.S. State Department launched the Global Music Diplomacy Initiative in September 2023? Source: https://apnews.com/article/quincy-jones-state-department-global-music-diplomacy-ad771f888c9b91c0991a583d09f77e24
- ALT1: ... that a video of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken playing the guitar at the launch of the Global Music Diplomacy Initiative in September 2023 went viral? Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20231002184711/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/us/politics/antony-blinken-guitar-state-department.html
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Created by W9793 (talk). Self-nominated at 01:59, 6 December 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Global Music Diplomacy Initiative; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

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

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Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
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QPQ: - Not done
Overall: Earwig has 49.0% for one source but is largely quotes used in article. Main hook isn't very interesting. Alt 1 is better, suggest ...that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken played Hoochie Coochie Man at the launch of the Global Music Diplomacy Initiative in September 2023? as Alt 2 yorkshiresky (talk) 17:31, 10 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@W9793 and Yorkshiresky: Incorporating "Hoochie Coochie Man" into ALT1.

ALT1a: ... that a video of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken playing Hoochie Coochie Man at the September 2023 launch of the Global Music Diplomacy Initiative went viral?

I also suggest pairing down the excessive citations WP:OVERCITE, especially in the lead sentence which has 8 citations.