Talk:Alma Mater (New York sculpture)
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 | Alma Mater (New York sculpture) has been listed as one of the Art and architecture good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it. Review: September 29, 2021. (Reviewed version). |
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editColumbia does not have "three backup copies" of Alma Mater -- or even one, which is all it would need in any event. When I was a student there in the mid-1980s someone stole the end of Alma Mater's scepter, and Columbia did not have a copy of even that part of the statue to install as a replacement. The stolen piece was returned and reinstalled more securely. The university may have made a cast of it just in case it gets stolen again, but there is no way it could have made a cast of the entire sculture without people seeing them do it.
Did you know nomination
edit- 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 Theleekycauldron (talk) 02:21, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
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Alma Mater in 2014
- ... that the Alma Mater statue (pictured) at Columbia University was damaged by an explosion during student protests in 1970? Source: [1]
- ALT1:... that the Alma Mater statue (pictured) at Columbia University has inspired similar statues at the University of Havana and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign? Source: [2], [3]
- ALT2:... that in 2008, students at Columbia University placed black shroud over the head of Alma Mater (pictured) to protest the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal? Source:[4]
Improved to Good Article status by Normsupon (talk). Self-nominated at 22:05, 29 September 2021 (UTC).
- Hi Normsupon, review follows: article promoted to GA on 29 September; article is well written and cited inline to reliable sources throughout; I didn't find any issue with overly close paraphrasing in a spotcheck on sources; hooks are interesting and mentioned in the article, I can verify ALT0 and ALT1 to the sources cited and happy to AGF on ALT2; nominator looks to be QPQ exempt. Looks fine to me
- Dumelow (talk) 06:02, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
- Hi Normsupon, review follows: article promoted to GA on 29 September; article is well written and cited inline to reliable sources throughout; I didn't find any issue with overly close paraphrasing in a spotcheck on sources; hooks are interesting and mentioned in the article, I can verify ALT0 and ALT1 to the sources cited and happy to AGF on ALT2; nominator looks to be QPQ exempt. Looks fine to me
