Template:Did you know nominations/Statue of John Stockton
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The result was: promoted by DimensionalFusion talk 12:52, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
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Statue of John Stockton
- ... that the sculptor re-positioned the statue of John Stockton about 20 times by using a wrench to adjust ball-and-socket joints on steel rods?
- Source: [1]
- ALT1: ... that the statue of John Stockton was adorned with a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic? Source: [2][3]
- Reviewed: 0
Moved to mainspace by Left guide (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.
Left guide (talk) 13:53, 26 August 2024 (UTC).
References
- ^ Robinson, Doug (June 14, 2004). "Sculpting Stockton no way a slam-dunk". Deseret News. Retrieved August 24, 2024.
- ^ Kalbrosky, Bryan (January 25, 2022). "Somebody put a mask on a John Stockton statue because he refuses to do it himself". USA Today. Retrieved August 24, 2024.
- ^ McCarriston, Shanna (January 25, 2022). "Fan puts face mask on John Stockton statue outside of Jazz's Vivint Arena". CBS Sports. Retrieved August 24, 2024.
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Overall: 
Fun little DYK, was kind of neat to learn more about the statue and how the everything came together. All in all it looks fine, no copyvio issues, and article is long enough. I'm not a huge fan of the second hook, it's not as interesting as learning about the process that was taken to make the statue. One minor note to the nominator, it was kind of a pain to go through the article history since you moved it over from your sandbox. Maybe consider using draft space next time. Dr vulpes (Talk) 15:44, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- @Dr vulpes: Thank you, glad to know you enjoy it! I personally find the first hook to be more interesting also, but my main qualm is that it seems somewhat difficult to include all of the useful details while keeping it reasonably simple and catchy for the average reader. As to the last point, my interest in working on specific topics comes and goes and seems totally random, so I often try to save things in userspace rather than draftspace to avoid the automatic deletion after 6 months, which has happened before. Left guide (talk) 01:30, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- @Left guide: I 100% feel you on that! I was going over it and it took me a little bit for it to click. No worries just glad you got it here to DYK. Dr vulpes (Talk) 03:09, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
@Dr vulpes and Left guide: The hook and the article text both can be read to mean that the current statue was re-positioned and contains hidden joints. Maybe something like:
- @Left guide: I 100% feel you on that! I was going over it and it took me a little bit for it to click. No worries just glad you got it here to DYK. Dr vulpes (Talk) 03:09, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- ALT2: ... that a sculptor used ball-and-socket joints to re-position the original clay statue of John Stockton about 20 times before arriving at the final pose.