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A fact from Statue of Dirk Nowitzki appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 September 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that plans for a statue of Dirk Nowitzki to have three basketballs were scrapped?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Statue of Dirk Nowitzki.

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Did you know nomination

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 Rjjiii talk 16:59, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the statue of Dirk Nowitzki originally had three basketballs?

Source: ^[1]^[2]^[3]

ALT1: ... that Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban promised that the statue of Dirk Nowitzki would be "the biggest, most bad-ass statue ever"? Source: ^[4]^[5]
ALT2: ... that although the statue of Dirk Nowitzki appears unbalanced, a physics professor said its center of mass keeps it upright? Source: ^[6]
Reviewed: 0
Comment: First time ever doing anything DYK-related, so please forgive me if I make any mistakes. Left guide (talk) 12:18, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Moved to mainspace by Left guide (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.

Left guide (talk) 12:18, 25 August 2024 (UTC).[reply]

References

^ Rogers, Tim (January 6, 2022). "The Dirk Statue Is, Um, Not Great". D Magazine. Dallas, Texas: D Magazine Partners. Retrieved August 22, 2024.
^ Haney, Addie (January 6, 2022). "The rendering for the Dirk Nowitzki statue was revealed at his jersey retirement celebration, and the internet had some thoughts". WFAA. Dallas, Texas. Retrieved August 22, 2024.
^ "Dirk Nowitzki statue unveiled outside of American Airlines Center". KDFW. Dallas, Texas. December 25, 2022. Retrieved August 22, 2024.
^ Dameris, Brian (December 25, 2022). "Meet the Man Who Designed Dirk Nowitzki's Statue". D Magazine. Dallas, Texas: D Magazine Partners. Retrieved August 21, 2024.
^ MacMahon, Tim (December 25, 2022). "Mavericks unveil statue of franchise legend Dirk Nowitzki". ESPN. Dallas, Texas. Retrieved August 22, 2024.
^ Mooney, Michael (January 11, 2023). "How the Dirk statue stays upright: An Axios investigation". Axios. Dallas, Texas. Retrieved August 23, 2024.

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: None required.

Overall:

Article was nominated within 7 days of creation. It is over 1,500 bytes long and is well-sourced. Earwig gave an unlikely violation of 0%. Hook is interesting and well-cited. This is the nominator's first nomination, so a QPQ is not needed at this time. One minor fix I suggest before I pass this is where it discusses the criticism of the basketballs on the statue. The criticism part is cited but the Twitter part is not and I'm not sure if that's important to mention. lullabying (talk) 02:47, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Lullabying: Hello, thanks for reviewing. For some reason, citation #2 on this DYK nom page (which is #5 in the article), has gone 404 between the time I wrote the article and when you just reviewed it. But that source has in-depth analysis about various Twitter reactions critical of the three-ball design; the title even ends with and the internet had some thoughts. Here is an archive link. Left guide (talk) 03:20, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I originally shrugged at it having three balls, but then actually read the article for the backstory. Explicitly mentioning that it was scrapped makes it more compelling for me, who otherwise thought it was one of many random iterations. I add a new alt for consideration:

ALT3 ... that plans for the statue of Dirk Nowitzki to have three basketballs were scrapped?—Bagumba (talk) 03:42, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

- - Looks good now. ALT3 is fine with me. lullabying (talk) 03:53, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback from New Page Review process

I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: Nice work on this article, thanks for your contributions!

Netherzone (talk) 00:33, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[rogers-1] Rogers, Tim (January 6, 2022). "The Dirk Statue Is, Um, Not Great". D Magazine. Dallas, Texas: D Magazine Partners. Retrieved August 22, 2024.

[haney-2] Haney, Addie (January 6, 2022). "The rendering for the Dirk Nowitzki statue was revealed at his jersey retirement celebration, and the internet had some thoughts". WFAA. Dallas, Texas. Retrieved August 22, 2024.

[kdfw-3] "Dirk Nowitzki statue unveiled outside of American Airlines Center". KDFW. Dallas, Texas. December 25, 2022. Retrieved August 22, 2024.

[dameris-4] Dameris, Brian (December 25, 2022). "Meet the Man Who Designed Dirk Nowitzki's Statue". D Magazine. Dallas, Texas: D Magazine Partners. Retrieved August 21, 2024.

[macmahon-5] MacMahon, Tim (December 25, 2022). "Mavericks unveil statue of franchise legend Dirk Nowitzki". ESPN. Dallas, Texas. Retrieved August 22, 2024.

[mooney-6] Mooney, Michael (January 11, 2023). "How the Dirk statue stays upright: An Axios investigation". Axios. Dallas, Texas. Retrieved August 23, 2024.

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