Talk:Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi

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I'm pretty sure calling him a corrupt politician is not the Wikipedia way... Please correct this.

[edit] Ould

This part seems to be in all but two guys at Category:Mauritanian politicians, is it a title like 'sir', is there a whole lot of nepotism going on, or is it a west african version of the al- or el- in Arabic? Chris 07:44, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I think Ould means "son of" in the form of Arabic spoken there. --Cam 23:25, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sidi

Sidi is a masculine title of respect in Western Arabic. Unless it is part of his given name, we really need to remove it and revert to name only as per WP:MOS about honorifics-Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom doesn't have her queenly title, and Akihito isn't referred to imperially in his namespace. Chris 07:49, 29 March 2007 (UTC)