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Butterfly Theater

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Butterfly Theater at night (1911)

• ... that the Butterfly Theater (pictured) featured a 27 ft (8.2 m) wide terra-cotta butterfly with 1,000 light bulbs? Source: ... jaw-dropping a sight as the 27-foot wide terra cotta sculpture of a woman with butterfly wings, illuminated by a thousand light bulbs, under which he welcomed visitors to the city’s new film palace on 2nd and Wisconsin.
  • ALT1: ... that in 1911 the Butterfly Theater (pictured) featured a pipe organ worth $10,000 (equivalent to $327,000 in 2023)? Source: Offline source <ref name="Society">{{cite news |title=Society |work=Milwaukee Sentinel |date=14 September 1911}}</ref>
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Eric Sievers
  • Comment: Other images are in the article if a promotor is so inclined.

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Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 22 past nominations.

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Lightburst (talk) 23:06, 19 April 2024 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
• Other problems:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited: - n The cite for the original hook does not include any information about the butterfly sculpture. I believe you mean to cite it to the Rankin, Jim (2022) ref.
• Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: This review is for the original hook. Created on April 19th, 4199 characters of prose. Earwig shows no plagiarism or close paraphrasing. Issues with sourcing of hook, neutrality in one section, and a factual issue with who made the terrcotta. Found5dollar (talk) 19:14, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

@Found5dollar: Thank you for the review. I edited the section about the imposter which now reads " The theater hired a doorman who said he was oscar award winning actor and boxer Victor McLaglen, but he was an imposter. Victor McLaglen exposed the man as a fraud and revealed that the man was actually his brother Leopold McLaglen". Changed the terra-cotta bit, the actual source language is "a great deal of the design credit must be given to the terra-cotta supply company in Chicago." So my error was in thinking it was a company rather than a generic random supply company- I fixed it. Regarding the hook citation it is correct and the information can be found in the first paragraph of the source. Lightburst (talk) 23:01, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

@Lightburst: the article now seems neural to me and the factual issue was corrected. Unfortunatly that cite calls it a "woman with butterfly wings" not a "butterfly." I'd suggest either changing the source or changing from claiming it is a butterfly to "a woman with butterfly wings." --Found5dollar (talk) 21:37, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

@Found5dollar: Seems like we are in WP:BLUE territory. The theater is called butterfly, according to most sources the facade is adorned with a butterfly. It is either a woman with butterfly wings or a butterfly with a woman's body but still a butterfly. I backed it up by adding a Rankin citation to end of sentence. "terra cotta butterfly for the facade, delineated in 1,000 light bulbs and spanning some 27 feet from wingtip to wingtip" Lightburst (talk) 21:55, 21 April 2024 (UTC)