Talk:Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi

Comment from 2007
Should this be moved? I was thinking that Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi or Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi would be more appropriate. &mdash;Simetrical (talk) 01:44, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC) His name ought to be listed not as FREDERIC gogog accurate. I confirm : it should be changed to FREDERIC-AUGUSTE BARTHOLDI (or at least AUGUSTE BARTHOLDI).--AchilleT 19:58, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Birth date
A number of sources (such as Britannica) give his date of birth as April 2. Anyone know why the discrepancy? Epicidiot 23:01, 1 April 2006 (UTC) BARTHOLDI was born in August not April. Yes, bartholdi was born in AUgust.--AchilleT 19:55, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

More on birth month
This is baffling: resources online seem to be evenly split between the two months. For example:

August: http://www.statueofliberty.info/pages/statuegb/bartholdi.htm http://www.musee-bartholdi.com/musee/index2.php http://www.ville-colmar.fr/adv/culture/anneebartho.htm http://www.crdp-strasbourg.fr/bartho/bio_gen.htm http://edhelper.com/BiographyReadingComprehension_31_1.html

April: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9013523/Frederic-Auguste-Bartholdi http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4931 http://student.britannica.com/comptons/article-9317059/Frederic-Auguste-Bartholdi

The problem however is that Wikipedia itself seems to have become a major reference and this article said April for most of its existence. I believe this may have come from Britannica in the first place. It is also worth noticing that Wikipedia articles in all other languages I have checked including French say August.

As the first three resources I have listed above which say August are directly dedicated to F. Bartholdi, his work and birth town, whereas the ones which say April are general knowledge sites, I think it is safe to assume that August is correct and Encyclopedia Britannica is (gasp!) wrong. Please do not change it again without stating a good reason. Thank you. Mezigue (talk) 21:29, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 03:27, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

First paragraph makes no sense
It implies that he went to study in Paris at the age of 2. Needs to be reworked, which I would do but I do not know the facts.Godingo (talk) 16:14, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Tallest structure of New York?
"It was the largest work of its kind that had ever been completed up to that time, and was the tallest structure in New York City until the Empire State building topped it in 1929."

This is wrong. The Statue of Liberty is 93 m from ground to the torch. St. Patrick's Cathedral, which was built before the statue (1878), is over 100 m tall. Also, several high-rises surpassed the Statue of Liberty even before the Empire State Building. So the Statue of Liberty was never the tallest structure in New York City. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.141.41.21 (talk) 09:12, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

Les fontaines de Reims et de Washington
The fountains of Reims (dated 1885 and regrettably destroyed in 1914) and of Washington (dated 1878) were terribly alike. Who would know about it more ? François GOGLINS (talk) 12:46, 19 July 2015 (UTC).

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