Talk:Vaillancourt Fountain

Preliminary thoughts on GA potential
This looks close to ready for GA. The Bono bit is very interesting.
 * Lead looks good.
 * Haven't checked for completeness, but this seems likely to have covered "main aspects"
 * The footnoting for "The fountain has been considered controversial since its construction, and criticism of it has continued over the years" is so extensive that you might consider joining them into one footnote a la some of the notes at e.g. MIND MGMT (36, 40). This isn't a GA criterion though, just a side suggestion.
 * The one-sentence paragraph in "Critical reaction" might be combined with another per WP:LAYOUT
 * Images are relevant and properly tagged.
 * A GA reviewer may object that there are no citations in the "Location" section. These aren't technically required for GA here (there are no quotations/stats/interpretations there), but you'd save yourself some potential hassle if any citation could be added there.

I'd say this is close enough that you should nominate it whenever you're ready! -- Khazar2 (talk) 11:52, 3 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your thoughts. The problem with footnote joining is that most of those sources are used multiple times in the article, and so joining them for this footnote would mean replicating the citation info, which I generally am not keen on doing.


 * I have been wondering whether the paragraph regarding the Remembrance Day bombing and Bono's reaction belongs here at all. It has nothing to do with the San Francisco location or the fountain or the sculptor, unlike the rest of the material in this section.  It could maybe be moved to The Joshua Tree Tour article, but I wanted to check with Cullen328 first and he was previously away when I was working on this.  Wasted Time R (talk) 00:43, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Not hearing any objections, I have now removed this. Wasted Time R (talk) 12:38, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I reviewed this for DYK, and the only thing I thought was missing was a bit of context for the phrase "Québec libre", there's no mention of the separatiste movement. Might be good to have a sentence of explanation for non-NA readers.  The Interior  (Talk) 00:47, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Research credit
Although she hasn't yet edited this article, my wife Debra, User:ChesPal, assisted by doing online research, especially on the sculptor, Armand Vaillancourt. I want to thank her and acknowledge her work.  Cullen 328  Let's discuss it  18:34, 8 June 2013 (UTC)


 * We thank the both of you, it's a subject and an article that shows what happens when several different artistic-political viewpoints intersect each other ...  Wasted Time R (talk) 10:41, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

No mention of Bullitt? I don't have a lot of facts, but...
I was surprised when watching the Blu-ray of Bullitt recently that when Frank Bullitt (Steve Mcqueen) visits his girlfriend (Jacqueline Bisset), she's in a sort of architectural studio, working on ... the Fountain. She asks him to look up water flow volumes and rated pipe, and a small model of the Fountain is nearby. Apparently, design was underway on the Vaillancourt Fountain and the film crew was able to use a mock-up for their location shooting.

Wonder if anyone knows more?


 * http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/best-san-francisco-movie/BestOf?oid=2142041
 * http://aboutinthecity.blogspot.com/2009/08/vailllancourt-fountain.html

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