Talk:Idi Amin
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Age
Amin’s date of birth is not exactly known. There should be a consensus. Alba91 (talk) 01:31, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
- Please read the article. Many possible dates have been used by various sources, but the most reliable ones use 30 May 1928. Applodion (talk) 19:16, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
Idi Amin in American comics.
I recently discovered a portrayal of Idi Amin in an American comic magazine, put out by the Harris Company. In the comic, the former dictator is portrayed as a Cleopatra-like Egyptian woman. I cannot think why you have not mentioned this comic series in your otherwise excellent article. Glammazon2 (talk) 17:38, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
Major?
There was a nonsense bit about rising to major and head of army Billsmith60 (talk) 20:51, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- Why is that "nonsense"? Why was the link to Uganda Army nonsense? The details of his army career appear in the main body text, with a source. Do you think they don't belong in the lead section? Martinevans123 (talk) 21:00, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- My point is that the 'major' bit jars with head of army. Surely he'd have been a general at that stage? Why need mention major in the Lead at all? Billsmith60 (talk) 12:18, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, I agree that's how it sounds and that's not what the article text says. So some kind of adjustment is probably needed. The source here says this: "Template:Tq" Obviously all that detail in not needed in the lead section, and maybe not even in the main body. But it does clarify things. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:34, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
- I have corrected the year 1965 to "two years later" (1966), as per the source. I think those are significant events in his life and do belong in the lead section. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:38, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, I agree that's how it sounds and that's not what the article text says. So some kind of adjustment is probably needed. The source here says this: "Template:Tq" Obviously all that detail in not needed in the lead section, and maybe not even in the main body. But it does clarify things. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:34, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
- My point is that the 'major' bit jars with head of army. Surely he'd have been a general at that stage? Why need mention major in the Lead at all? Billsmith60 (talk) 12:18, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
Hayes FC fan
I have removed the statement about Amin being a Hayes FC fan. This was added to the article uncited in 2011 by Template:Noping, and later cited to a Yahoo/Eurosport article dated 28 May 2012. Based on the wording of the article and the username who added the statement, I think it is most likely that the statement was added as a joke by a Hayes fan, and picked up by lazy journalism and cited as fact. In other words, this is a case of circular reporting or citogenesis. Stifle (talk) 09:05, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
- Strangely enough, it seems he was a football fan. Martinevans123 (talk) 09:17, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
Better source needed for the long title
The claim that Idi Amin called himself or was called by others "His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, CBE, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular" is given the citation of Encyclopedia Africana by Gates and Appiah, but with no edition or page number. This factoid has been much popularized online since 2015 in places like Reddit and YouTube, and was even given a huge boost by a segment on the Daily Show with Trevor Noah around nine years ago and in other places like BBC articles about 20th century dictators; that TDS segment cited a US News and World Report article that I cannot find. Are there additional sources for this claim that are more contemporaneous with Idi Amin? 69.58.145.178 (talk) 16:20, 7 February 2025 (UTC)