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Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic

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The result was: promoted by Crisco 1492 (talk)

... that Canadian artist Jana Sterbak's controversial "Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic" (1987) included a dress made of meat, easily pre-dating Lady Gaga's 2010 meat dress?

Reviewed: Miracle Man (The X-Files) ([1])

Created by Zanimum (talk). Self nom at 22:07, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Hook

Length, format, content rules – size ok (181)
Source –
Interest – I have suggested a more succinct ALT. Original is okay too.Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:53, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Image suitability, if applicable –
ALT hooks, if proposed –

... that Jana Sterbak created a dress made of meat, 23 years before Lady Gaga wore one?

The alt seems to get the the meat of the situation, in a much hookier fashion. (Puns intended) Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:20, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, with the very slight additions I made. -- Zanimum (talk) 13:56, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article

Length – --Antidiskriminator (talk) 12:51, 8 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Vintage – --Antidiskriminator (talk) 12:51, 8 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Sourcing (V, RS, BLP) – Bare URLs are generally not for the main page. Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:53, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Neutrality – Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:53, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Plagiarism/close paraphrasing – Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:53, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
copyvio (files) – FUR available. Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:53, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Obvious faults in prose, structure, formatting – Looks okay. Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:53, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Needs a copyedit and some microparagraphs should be merged. Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:53, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comments/discussion:

The hook is not sourced at all.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 12:51, 8 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- It's now sourced, now that I see this issue. -- Zanimum (talk) 17:57, 10 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - Is source num 17 some kind of blog?--Antidiskriminator (talk) 07:18, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]