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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 Tarlby talk 04:28, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

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SZA

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  • ... that SZA's stage name is derived from the Supreme Alphabet, with "S" meaning savior or sovereign, "Z" representing Zig-Zag, and "A" standing for Allah?
Improved to Good Article status by Tomobe03 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

🐝 B33net 🐝 23:59, 1 March 2025 (UTC).

I'd like to propose some alternatives: Elias 🦗🐜 [Chat, they chattin', they chat] 14:42, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

  • ALT1: ... that singer-songwriter SZA has practiced Christianity and also identifies as Muslim? Source: Muslim Girl, People
  • ALT2: ... that singer-songwriter SZA was a hijabi as a child, but stopped wearing one due to Islamophobia after 9/11? Source: The Guardian
  • ALT3: ... that singer-songwriter SZA, often categorized as R&B by the media, has rejected the label due to its racist origins? Source: Uproxx
  • ALT4: ... that singer-songwriter SZA hates her most popular songs because she writes them very quickly? Billboard

Courtesy ping to @750h+, who nominated the article for GAN, for their thoughts. Elias 🦗🐜 [Chat, they chattin', they chat] 14:42, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

@Epicgenius I have changed the DYK to ALT2, if that’s okay with you. I can change it back if there’s any issues. 🐝 B33net 🐝 3:51, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

@B33net: Unfortunately, we still need to mention the original hook so the person who promotes this nomination to a prep area knows that it isn't a repeat of ALT2. However, I can note that you want ALT2 instead, which I'm going to do below. Epicgenius (talk) 15:57, 2 March 2025 (UTC)


General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Nice work on this article, @Tomobe03, B33net, PSA, and 750h+:. Specifically:

  • ALT0 is good to go.
  • ALT1 is good to go. I am satisfied with PSA's explanation, so I have struck the following: For ALT1, the People source says "Her parents have an interfaith relationship as SZA’s mom is Christian and her dad is Muslim. "The Quran and the Bible were probably my firsts," the singer, who attended Sunday school and Muslim school, told the outlet of her early reads." I don't know if this can specifically be interpreted as practicing Christianity and identifying as Muslim, though. The other source says the same thing.
  • ALT2 is good to go.
  • For ALT3, the article does not mention racism specifically. The source says only that the label was reductive, not racist.
  • ALT4 is good to go. I am satisfied with PSA's explanation, so I have struck the following: For ALT4, I don't see where the source says "I knew it would be something that pissed me off. It's always a song that I don't give a f–k about that's just super easy, not the sh-t that I put so much heart and energy into." Epicgenius (talk) 15:40, 2 March 2025 (UTC)
    • To the promoter: Please note that B33net prefers ALT2, not ALT0. Epicgenius (talk) 15:57, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

@Epicgenius, thanks for the review.

  • For ALT1, this Vulture source is more explicit in that regard: "I’ve gone through so many different stages like atheism, Islam, extreme Christianity." And the Muslim Girl source says "SZA's Muslim identity" so I think it is fair to say she considers herself Muslim.
  • For ALT3, Uproxx mentions how the categorization of Black artists as R&B has a racist history (using that word explicitly), so I was under the impression that this applied here. They make a point about how "That marketing of music placed artists into neat little boxes, some based on racist categorization of artists, with little thought to the style, form, or content of their music.", then goes on to say "maybe the issue of genre categorization based on race could be solved by ... an artist like SZA blatantly stating the obvious when it comes to the alternative leanings of their sound."
  • For ALT4, that's my bad... this is supposed to be cited to a Billboard source but it looks like I cited the wrong one :joy_cat: People mentions this fact, so I have replaced the source with this one.

Elias 🦗🐜 [Chat, they chattin', they chat] 23:10, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

  • Thanks for the explanation, Elias. I have also approved ALT1 and ALT4 now. Epicgenius (talk) 00:15, 3 March 2025 (UTC)


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