Talk:Android lawn statues

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A fact from Android lawn statues appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 November 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Google keeps giant dessert items on its lawn?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/November.

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Why is this page here?

To me, this is a clear candidate for deletion/merging as Non-notable, non-encyclopedic content.

Pieces of art are not inherently notable

The artwork is, essentially, an ad for Android

All discussion of this artwork is in the context of the OS itself, not in terms of discussing the merits of the art or the like

This should, at most, be a section of the article on Android. GormtheDBA (talk) 20:07, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

New Image

Looks like you need a new image as Google have added the Gingerbread and Ice Cream Sandwich statues to their lawn since that photo was taken as Android 2.3 + 4.0 were released. I'm not sure if they added one for honeycomb (3.0). Good article though Jenova20 08:54, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

We sure could use new pictures, but that is the only free use one I could find. if you live near the google headquarters or know anyone else that does, a more recent picture would be welcome!--Found5dollar (talk) 13:28, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Well im in the UK so it's a bit of a walk up there Jenova20 14:51, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bolding and "fastest selling mobile operating system as of late 2010"

here is what I removed from the article: "[Google]]'s Android is the fastest selling mobile operating system as of late 2010"

I removed this for two reason. The first minor reason is that the bolding of "Android" is not needed here. A word is bolded at the beginning of an article for the purpose of highlighting what the article is about or various other names it may be going by. As this article is not about the operating system itself, and the title of the group of statues is already bolded at the beginning of the article there is no need to bold this here. The reason I removed the sentence as a whole is that a) the rate of sale of phones with the Android OS has no bearing on the statues, the number of phones sold may, but not the rate at which they sell does not. This fact is better suited for the Android OS wiki page. And b) this fact is already outdated, and will become more so as the article evolves. Either it will need to be updated every time Google's sales numbers are released or it will become stale and removed due to being outdated.--Found5dollar (talk) 23:20, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't know about the bolding.

Second the figures aren't out of date since sales figures just released (and i can get a source for that) show that even with the new iphone launch, Samsung is still outselling iphone and Android sales are still accelerating.

It doesn't seem unreasonable to add that statement again without the bolding since it's not a large article and is relevant directly to the "background" section i added it to.

Thanks Jenova20 09:24, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File:Google lawn.jpg Nominated for Deletion

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Misinformation about non-existing statues and dessert names for recent Android versions

This article has seen repeated attempts from various US-based IPs to add false claims about Google erecting lawn statues for Android 11 and 12, and about alleged dessert names for Android 10, 11 and 12 (e.g. [1] [2] [3], also in contradictory versions - "Quince Tart" vs "Queen Cake" and "Snow Cone" vs. :Sabrina" [4]). These attempts went as far trying to delete referenced statements pointing out that Google had stopped making physical statues [5] and is no longer using code names [6].

I get it that some Android fans are disappointed that Google stopped using the dessert names. But that doesn't make it OK to try to use Wikipedia to make Google change their mind, or to popularize inofficial names. See Wikipedia:Verifiability.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 14:25, 27 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]