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A fact from Ritsuko Taho appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 December 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Ritsuko Taho once had her students at Harvard University slaughter a chicken and turn its bones into a sculpture?

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 00:56, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Ritsuko Taho was the dream collector of Cambridge, Massachusetts? Source: All cities have tax collectors. Cambridge also has a dream collector. For the last five months, artist Ritsuko Taho has been asking city residents to write their dreams on slips of paper so she can engrave them onto three "Dream Towers" she plans to build in Central Square this fall as the run-down shopping district undergoes a $3.6 million renovation.
- ALT1: ... that The Boston Globe called Ritsuko Taho the dream collector of Cambridge, Massachusetts? Source: ALT0
- ALT2: ... that artist Ritsuko Taho once invited others to collect dead leaves to fill a large structure of chain-link fence and scaffolding? Source: Ritsuko Taho's "Forbidden Building" is a poetic reordering of some of the most ordinary things in the city a chain fence and dead leaves. It is approximately a large cube, twenty-three feet high, made of scaffolding covered with chain link fence. Each of its four sides is a double wall separated by a two-foot wide space. This space is filled with dead leaves that Ritsuko collects and calls upon neighbors to collect from yards, parks, and city streets.
- ALT3: ... that 40,000 inflated gloves Ritsuko Taho attached to the Margaret Mitchell House and Museum in Atlanta were destroyed by an arson attack on the building? Source: At around 4 a.m. on September 17, 1994, an arsonist poured a trail of kerosene from ground floor to third floor. By the time it was alight, a thunderstorm had broken out, but the combination of kerosene and flaming 40,000 vinyl gloves succeeded in nearly destroying the building in a Wagnerian apocalypse of fire and storm.
- ALT4: ... that when an artwork with 40,000 dreams was destroyed by an arson attack, its creator Ritsuko Taho said that it was "almost like a god tried to take [them]"? Source: ALT3
- ALT5: ... that Ritsuko Taho once had her students at Harvard University slaughter a chicken and turn its bones into a sculpture? Source: "[Ritsuko Taho] assigned her students to adopt a live chicken for a day, then take it to a slaughter house, watch it be processed, and cook and eat it before making a sculpture from the bones."
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kylian Portal (Alex Portal)
- Comment: Open to other hooks if possible.

Moved to mainspace by Miraclepine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 62 past nominations.

ミラP@Miraclepine 22:25, 12 November 2024 (UTC).[reply]

This is currently only a partial review as I'm having issues with Earwig at the moment so I am unable to check for close paraphrasing. The article is new enough and long enough. It is adequately sourced. A full QPQ was performed. Among the hooks, ALT5 is definitely the most intriguing and thus the best option. The Newspaper.com link is paywalled for me so I will assume good faith regarding the quote. I do suspect that there could be opposition to it on WP:DYKGRAT grounds, but that's counting the chickens before they hatch, so let's cross the bridge if/when we get there. If for whatever reason ALT5 cannot be used or is rejected, ALT4 is the best backup option. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 13:27, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Narutolovehinata5: Earwig still works; it just doesn't read newspaper.com content (you'll need to request an account through the WP:LIBRARY to access it directly). ミラP@Miraclepine 15:59, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I mean I wasn't able to run Earwig at all, as in it wouldn't open for me. But I can assume good faith you want. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:08, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Narutolovehinata5: That's fine. I meant that I could still run it even if you couldn't. ミラP@Miraclepine 01:19, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I guess that works. Approving ALT5; ALT4 to be used only if objections are raised to ALT5 over at WT:DYK or WP:ERRORS. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:01, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Current residence

Her last residence mentioned in the article was Boston, however when she started teaching at Tokyo University of the Arts, she most likely moved to Tokyo. I was unable to locate any references to definitively place her in Tokyo or Japan. Echigo-Tsumari mentions her country as 'Japan', though it is unclear if that's the country of her birth or current residence. — Safety Cap (talk) 19:09, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]