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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:13, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Adiyogi Shiva statue

 * ... that the Adiyogi Shiva statue (model pictured) is the world's tallest bust of the Hindu god Shiva?
 * Reviewed: TBD Jamaica–179th Street (IND Queens Boulevard Line)

Created by Vivvt (talk). Self-nominated at 10:23, 1 March 2017 (UTC).


 * how about a hook like so: ... that the Adiyogi Shiva statue (model pictured) is the world's tallest bust of Shiva and was unveiled by Narendra Modi, India's Prime Minister? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tamilmama (talk • contribs)
 * Narendra Modi's mention does not make anything special. He or someone else would have done it anyway. That would not impact anything on the tallness or change the statue from Shiva to Parvati. - Vivvt ( Talk ) 12:22, 2 March 2017 (UTC)


 * I agree that including who unveiled it is not really special, the tallest claim is. So for any exceptional claim I like to do some independent verification by googling it myself and the first three page of results seem to support the claim of tallest, so I'm thinking the suggested hook is the way to go.
 * Symbol confirmed.svg article is long enough, new enough, source well enough (I fixed one source to have more info). The hook is in the article and sourced. QPQ provided and looks good. The quote shows up in the copyvio tool but it's one quote and attributed so that's fine. It hits all the marks and is approve.  MPJ  -DK 02:38, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg Looking at the picture it's tagged as own work on Commons. I see that it was supposedly taken on 2015 - but the statue was unveiled in 2017?? Looks odd to me?  MPJ  -DK 02:41, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Someone pointed out the picture was of a replica, not the actual thing. I think the caption should be clear that it's a small scale replica.  MPJ  -DK 02:56, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify...the small scale (21-foot) version was unveiled at Dhyanalinga temple in 2014. The image is of the same small scale version which was uploaded to Commons in 2015. The 112-foot statue image is not yet available. Thats why article and hook uses 21-foot statue image and mentions it to be "small scale version" and "model" in the article and hook respectively. - Vivvt ( Talk ) 03:35, 6 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Thank you for the clarification, we are good here.  MPJ  -DK 03:43, 6 March 2017 (UTC)