Talk:The Broken Kilometer

A fact from The Broken Kilometer appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 September 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the 500 brass rods that make up Walter De Maria's The Broken Kilometer are polished every two years?

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Amkgp (talk) 07:13, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that 500 brass rods have been sitting on the floor in a SoHo storefront since 1979? "...is composed of 500 highly polished, round, solid brass rods...The Broken Kilometer has been on long-term view to the public since 1979."[1]
- ALT1:... that the 500 brass rods that make up Walter De Maria's The Broken Kilometer are polished every two years? "We are polishing it every two years"[2]

Moved to mainspace by Found5dollar (talk). Self-nominated at 20:50, 21 August 2020 (UTC).[reply]

I'll do a QPQ review soon.--Found5dollar (talk) 20:50, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewed 20 Exchange Place --Found5dollar (talk) 23:03, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Found5dollar, review follows: article moved to mainspace 21 August; article exceeds minimum length; article is well written and cited inline throughout to what look to be reliable sources to my unartistic eye; I didn't pick up on any overly close paraphrasing and all quotes are properly attributed; hooks are both interesting, they are mentioned in the article and backed up by the sources. My only query is if there is a source that explicitly calls the site a "storefront"? The term is not mentioned in the article main text and the site is only noted to be a former gallery; a QPQ has been carried out - Dumelow (talk) 05:07, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dumelow, thank you for your review! i have added a new source that explicitly calls the street level room which houses The Broken Kilometer a "storefront" [3] and added the word 2 more times to the article.Please let me know if there are any additional issues. --Found5dollar (talk) 15:47, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Found5dollar, yep all good for me - Dumelow (talk) 16:57, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Units[edit]

The length is metric, but the diameter is imperial! This is weird ... why not follow the example of The vertical kilometre and stick with metric? Prisoner of Zenda (talk) 09:13, 9 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Prisoner of Zenda, the artist is known for mixing units of measurement in his work. I know it is weird, but the rod is 1 kilometer long and 2 inches wide according to multiple sources. Someone changed the vertical earth kilometer page. I have changed it back.--Found5dollar (talk) 12:33, 9 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the clarification, Found5dollar. Prisoner of Zenda (talk) 02:27, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Design[edit]

The third paragraph contains the sentence "Negative reviews centered on underwhelmed visitors who saw the piece as unrightfully taking up valuable real estate, … "
Consider "wrongly" or "improperly" or "inappropriately" instead of "unrightfully".
Prisoner of Zenda (talk) 09:21, 9 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]