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A fact from Athens Confederate Monument appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 July 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that despite owning it, the city of Athens, Georgia, has to look for a legal loophole to relocate its Confederate monument?

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Senate Bill 77

was enacted when by who and why? That is, is this a recent thing? in reaction to a recent thing? A historical bit of obstructionism at the state level? What??! Missing this information it is a strange statement to include. Shenme (talk) 00:48, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There is a link to the legislation passed by the Georgia General Assembly as Act 57 on April 26, 2019. It amends Chapter 3 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia, which among other things specifies the flag of Georgia, and protects the huge bas-relief Confederate Memorial at Stone Mountain.

The so-called “loophole” appears to be § 50-3-1(b)(7), which allows monuments to be moved when necessary for construction projects, as long as relocated to a site of “similar prominence, honor, visibility, and access”, but not a museum. 82.132.229.97 (talk) 12:39, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

$ 4,444.44?

The article states, the monument "was completed on June 3, 1872, at the cost of $4,444.44". Does the amount have any significance or are the repeated 4s and the extraordinary precision of the cost purely coincidental? JezGrove (talk) 14:23, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

From the source it seems that it was a coincidence. There's not enough there to say there was any significance to the figure, but maybe some further research could shed light on that. I'm nowhere near Athens these days, but in my time living there when did do some research about the subject there was a lot of material in UGA's archives that might shed light on the significance of the number. ⑉⑉Mccunicano ☕️ 01:51, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Six shafts?

Part of the description, which was added in this edit last month by Mccunicano, says it is "an obelisk made of Carrara marble that has six shafts". What does that mean? The word "shaft" does not appear on the obelisk page. – Athaenara ✉ 19:50, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It's referring to the description that Coulter gives of the monument. There are a couple of paragraphs in the source of him talking about the monument's multiple shafts. ⑉⑉Mccunicano ☕️ 01:46, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]