Talk:Statue of RoboCop

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The result was: promoted by Rjjiii talk 09:06, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

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• ... that Detroit has been waiting for its statue of RoboCop for over 12 years? Source: "... decided to create their own plans for a statue by starting a Kickstarter campaign which raised more than $67,000. Fast-forward 12 years and the statue could soon be on public display."
  • ALT1: ... that a slice of RoboCop's groin had to be shaved off during the assembly of his statue? Source: "The crew corrected the tilt by shaving off a slice of RoboCop's groin and welding in a plate at the correct angle."
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Palestinian hikaye
  • Comment: I'm waiting on approval of a link to the Kickstarter page at MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist/Archives/2023/12#kickstarter.com.

Created by Gobonobo (talk). Self-nominated at 17:12, 2 December 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/RoboCop statue; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• Article is new and long enough at time of nomination, hook is cited and interesting; Earwig's happy. The article is in good shape. Personally I'm leaning towards ALT1 - the humour there is more appealing than the delay of a public project. The wording of it tripped me up a little, might it be better as:
• ALT1a... that RoboCop's groin had to be partially shaved off during the assembly of his statue?
• Either way, RoboCop needs to be wikilinked; likely most of the people seeing the hook will never have heard of it.  Frzzl  talk; contribs  17:08, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

I'm open to ALTs, but "a RoboCop's groin" makes no sense. gobonobo ^{+ c} 13:14, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Oops, that was a mistake on my part, removed the "a". I'm happy to approve ALT1 with RoboCop linked if you think it's better.  Frzzl  talk; contribs  16:02, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

- fine, approving the original ALT0 with a linked RoboCop  Frzzl  talk; contribs  17:23, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

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