Template:Did you know nominations/Statue of Industry
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The result was: promoted by Freedom4U talk 21:42, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
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Statue of Industry
Students dancing around Statue of Industry after tarring and feathering it
- ... that some said Statue of Industry "impressed all who gazed upon it"; others said it was "the ugliest sight in the Exhibition"; and still others tarred and feathered it (pictured)?
- ALT1: ... that after George Frampton's Statue of Peter Pan was tarred and feathered, two of Jacob Epstein's statues received the same treatment, and Herbert Maryon's Statue of Industry was next (pictured)?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Songs of Muad'Dib
Created by Usernameunique (talk). Self-nominated at 07:42, 31 October 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Statue of Industry; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
the hook itself is interesting but is not phrased so. i would recommend trimming it down to keep only the tarring. the tarring sounds metaphorical and needs rephrasing to emphasize it was literally tarred. a source is needed in the hook too.RagingPichu (talk) 06:55, 1 November 2023 (UTC)- Why not "the Statue of Industry" (in the first hook, not ALT1), and why the italics? Ham II (talk) 20:45, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
- RagingPichu, how about:
- ALT2: ... that Statue of Industry was tarred and feathered (pictured)?
- ALT3: ... that 80 police officers were needed to disperse a crowd which tarred and feathered Statue of Industry (pictured)?
RagingPichu (talk) 23:15, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
- Source: link.
- Ham II, the italics are used, and there is no "the", because Statue of Industry is the name of the work. --Usernameunique (talk) 21:18, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
- The article's references refer to it in running text as the Statue of Industry, the statue of Industry, a statue representing "Industry" (with quotation marks doing the job of italics) and a few variations on these and on Mother Industry and the Mother of Industry, but never "Statue of Industry"/Statue of Industry without the definite article. It's telling that the string of references which refer to it as if Industry were the title (nos. 56–60) are the only ones quoting the sculptor. This is analogous to the Statue of Liberty (note the absence of italics), which has the formal title Liberty Enlightening the World. The issue with the definite article could be avoided altogether if the hook used the construction "Herbert Maryon's Statue of Industry". Ham II (talk) 09:22, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
- Usernameunique i like ALT3 the best. i'd pass that one RagingPichu (talk) 22:57, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
- Sounds good, thanks RagingPichu. To get this into the approved list, could you please confirm that you’ve checked article against the DYK criteria, and add the green checkmark? --Usernameunique (talk)
