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Louis Jordan was one of the Music good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
September 26, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
February 7, 2007	Good article reassessment	Delisted

A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on February 4, 2025.

Current status: Delisted good article

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Unreferenced and Not NPOV

This sentence in the Decline of Popularity section seems to violate NPOV as it appears to make a judgment and to take a person's claim as fact: "However, Jordan was also apparently not above taking credit for songs written by others - Jordan is credited as the co-writer of 'Saturday Night Fish Fry,' but Tympany Five pianist Bill Doggett later claimed that in fact he had written the song." Also there is no reference as to where this statement may be found to begin with. -Anon

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Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

However, Jordan may have taken credit for some songs written by others—he is credited as the co-writer of "Saturday Night Fish Fry", but the Tympany Five pianist Bill Doggett claimed he wrote it. Wouldn't this be better expressed, if at all, as "Tympany Five pianist claimed credit for ... Fish Fry"? The way it's phrased, it suggests Jordan may have had a habit of taking undue credit, while (at least as presented here) we have exactly one such claim. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 14:51, 27 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

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Unreferenced and Not NPOV

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