Template:Did you know nominations/Statue of Dirk Nowitzki

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The result was: promoted by Rjjiii talk 16:59, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Statue of Dirk Nowitzki

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• ... that the statue of Dirk Nowitzki originally had three basketballs?

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• ALT1: ... that Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban promised that the statue of Dirk Nowitzki would be "the biggest, most bad-ass statue ever"? Source:
• ALT2: ... that although the statue of Dirk Nowitzki appears unbalanced, a physics professor said its center of mass keeps it upright? Source:
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• Comment: First time ever doing anything DYK-related, so please forgive me if I make any mistakes. Left guide (talk) 12:18, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Moved to mainspace by Left guide (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.

Left guide (talk) 12:18, 25 August 2024 (UTC).

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General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Article was nominated within 7 days of creation. It is over 1,500 bytes long and is well-sourced. Earwig gave an unlikely violation of 0%. Hook is interesting and well-cited. This is the nominator's first nomination, so a QPQ is not needed at this time. One minor fix I suggest before I pass this is where it discusses the criticism of the basketballs on the statue. The criticism part is cited but the Twitter part is not and I'm not sure if that's important to mention. lullabying (talk) 02:47, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

@Lullabying: Hello, thanks for reviewing. For some reason, citation #2 on this DYK nom page (which is #5 in the article), has gone 404 between the time I wrote the article and when you just reviewed it. But that source has in-depth analysis about various Twitter reactions critical of the three-ball design; the title even ends with and the internet had some thoughts. Here is an archive link. Left guide (talk) 03:20, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

I originally shrugged at it having three balls, but then actually read the article for the backstory. Explicitly mentioning that it was scrapped makes it more compelling for me, who otherwise thought it was one of many random iterations. I add a new alt for consideration:

ALT3 ... that plans for the statue of Dirk Nowitzki to have three basketballs were scrapped?—Bagumba (talk) 03:42, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

• • • Looks good now. ALT3 is fine with me. lullabying (talk) 03:53, 29 August 2024 (UTC)