Talk:National Statuary Hall Collection
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[edit] Hawaii
Why do the Hawaii articles link to other statues, rather than to the article about the people, as do the other articles? This seems odd to me. -- Decumanus 23:33, 2004 Nov 22 (UTC)
[edit] Virginia and Georgia's 3rd statues
I will remove the paragraph "Two states have contributed three statues to the collection. Virginia has contributed statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Robert E. Lee. Georgia contributed Crawford Long and Alexander Stephens before being asked to contribute a statue of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr." -- a comment added by an anonymous user (68.158.9.108) on 01:28, 31 July 2006. There is no reference given, and there is no verification whatsoever on the collection's official site (http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/index.cfm). While it's certainly possible that these states have given the statues of Jefferson and King to be placed in the Capitol, they appear to not be part of the collection, as the law which founded the collection would still seem to allow for no more than two statues from each state. Since the IP address appears to possibly be associated with the Atlanta, GA area -- implying possible insight into the King statue specifically -- I invite the poster to re-post the paragraph with a source. --24.23.84.46 20:53, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
- I'm one of the keepers of this article and will look into the Rev. King story. There are two statues of Jefferson in the Capitol, one by David d'Angers and the other by Hiram Powers, and neither was contributed by Virginia. There is another rumor going around that California is going to revoke [or whatever] the statue of its King and replace it with one of Ronald Regan. I'll check this one out too, and really hope that it is not happening. 8 years (opinion) of RR was more than enough. Carptrash 20:29, 2 October 2006 (UTC) PS, you ought to consider registering.
- Likely the poster was referring to the statue of Rosa Parks that is mentioned at the top of the article. Carptrash 21:12, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Move to commons
The following images should all be moved from the en wiki to the commons:
- They should get the template {{PD-USGov-Congress}} for their copyright
- They should be placed on the page commons:National Statuary Hall Collection
- They should be categorized in commons:Category:United States Capitol
You can reference Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons or Wikipedia:WikiProject Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons. I suggest using the CommonsHelper, {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}} and Commonist.
--evrik (talk) 20:13, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
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