Talk:Statue of the Viscount Slim, London

Assessment

@Ham II: Thanks for expanding this article. Do you have a sense of whether this article is higher than start-class, and what it might take it promote the article to Good status? Just curious. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 16:02, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

@Another Believer: I didn't want to be immodest by giving it a higher rating than Start-class, but if you think it deserves better by all means promote it! At some point in the future I'll expand Statue of the Viscount Alanbrooke, London using the same two sources. I'm afraid they are the only sources I know of with in-depth coverage of either statue, and Ward-Jackson warns that the contemporary newspaper reports on the unveiling of Slim's statue are not very helpful for details.

To get more WP:PALon articles to GA status it might be best to schedule a collaboration at some point on one of the most important and busiest articles: The Cenotaph, Whitehall in particular comes to mind. HJ Mitchell has done very good work on Lutyens's other war memorials so he'd be an obvious person to approach for the Cenotaph. It would be a great one to feature on the 99th anniversary of the Armistice in November 2017 or the centenary in November 2018. Ham II (talk) 16:28, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

@Ham II: I've just got as far as creating articles for all of Lutyens' memorials. I've been intending to take on the Cenotaph at some point, and I had the centenary of the armistice or the centenary of its unveiling in mind. There's definitely enough written about it for a featured article. As for Monty, several of the books I've been using for my project mention his statue. I don't know if nay of them contain anything you don't already know but I'll have a look over the weekend. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 09:45, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

@HJ Mitchell: Excellent re: Monty; the articles on all the Raleigh Green statues could do with some attention. Let me know if you come across anything on the Alanbrooke or Slim statues, too. Over at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Public_Art/London#Bibliography I've been compiling a bibliography for London's public artworks which includes one essay on the Cenotaph, but please do add anything else you know of. I think the Cenotaph is crying out to be an FA. Ham II (talk) 07:42, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

@Ham II: There's not much. There's a paragraph on the trio by Mark Quinlan in British War Memorials and Derek Boorman makes a note of Roberts-Jones being (with Slim) a fellow Burma Star recipient and has a few sentences on each statue in For Your Tomorrow: British Second World War Memorials but neither contains a lot of detail. Happy to take photos of the relevant pages and email them to you if you want. If nothing else they might bulk out the bibliography. Pevsner might have something to say, but I'd be surprised if he had more than a sentence or two. You might also consider including the career highlights of each of the generals (Slim's time in Burma, Monty's in North Africa, and Alanbrooke's as CIGS) as background so that an uninitiated reader would understand why they're significant enough to have bronze statues outside the MoD on Whitehall. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 14:36, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

Year

Resolved

I am confused. The lead says 1988-1993, but the prose says, "The statue was unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 April 1990". Am I overlooking an explanation for this discrepancy, and should the year categories be changed? ---Another Believer _(Talk) 16:05, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Sorry; that should be 28 April 1993. Ham II (talk) 16:29, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 16:32, 30 September 2016 (UTC)