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A fact from BNL BNP Paribas headquarters appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 January 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the glass surface on the BNL BNP Paribas headquarters has alternating angles that follow the principle of the "two-faced Janus"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/BNL BNP Paribas headquarters.

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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 SL93 (talk) 00:38, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the BNL BNP Paribas headquarters in Rome has a unique 3 dimensional glass facade? Source: "15,000 square meters of surface arranged horizontally following a sinusoidal pattern and three-dimensional cusp-shaped windows."
- ALT1: ... that the glass surface on the BNL BNP Paribas headquarters has alternating angles which follow the principle of the "Two-faced Janus"? Source: Generating character of the building is what the designers define the principle of the “Two-faced Janus”.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lambeau Leap

Created by Bruxton (talk). Self-nominated at 02:28, 9 January 2022 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Nice work. ALT1 is good to go without the image (due to copyright issues, the image cannot be on Commons).

- There is no freedom of panorama in Italy. The image can be uploaded locally to English Wikipedia, but it is not suitable for Commons, and unfortunately it may be deleted from Commons.
- The first hook does not strike me as particularly interesting (it may just be me because I'm used to seeing unusual architecture, but a 3-dimensional facade isn't really that uncommon). ALT1 might work, and it quite reminds me of two of my own previous DYKs: 4 Times Square and CBS Building. Epicgenius (talk) 04:15, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Epicgenius, the bot hasn't moved this nomination to the Approved page, and I think it's because of the "hookinterest" and "picfree" fields, neither of which are "y". For hookinterest, perhaps you can strike the problematic hook up top and add the necessary "y" (perhaps including the comment on the "comments" line rather than here), and since the image has been removed from the nomination, perhaps update picfree to "NA" and blank picused and picclear to reflect that fact. I think that as long as there isn't a red "X" showing in the DYK checklist template's display, this will be moved by the bot as a successfully approved nomination. Many thanks. (I have also replaced the curly quotes in ALT1 with straight quotes.) BlueMoonset (talk) 02:46, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@BlueMoonset: Thanks. I have done those. ALT1 was moderately interesting, while ALT0 was not interesting - I was considering whether a third hook would be highly interesting, but ALT1 seems to work. Epicgenius (talk) 15:12, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Really a page on a feature (the glass of this building) should have a picture of said feature...

Anyone in Rome with a camera fancy taking a snap and putting it online as a creative commons or copyright waived image? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.9.104.192 (talk) 17:42, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I must chime in to agree. The article states that "The most unique feature about the building" is its appearance, yet there is no photograph of it? Not even a snap from the author of the article? --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 17:53, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Piledhigheranddeeper and 82.9.104.19: No freedom of panorama in Italy Bruxton (talk) 21:08, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I updated one locally Bruxton (talk) 15:35, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There ya go! --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 02:03, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]