Talk:Christ the Redeemer (statue)
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I know Corcovado is the mount, while the Redeemer(the name)
is the statue. When I first saw the article, it was called "Corcovado", while it only talked about the statue. All I did was to move that info to a page with a proper title (this one) and turn the Corcovado page into a redirect, until someone could fill it up with actual info on the mountain, which is what you did. – Kaonashi 05:26, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Is this an article about the statue or a tourist brochure about Brazil??? For example: a symbol of the city and of the warmth of the Brazilian people, who receive visitors with open arms.. It could definitily be more factual... I'm rephrasing the sentence... --Konstantin 10:32, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Origins
Is that history correct? I was under the impression that the statue, much like the Statue of Liberty, in New York, was a gift from France. Brazil was told in [way] advance that it was going to get it though, so what happened there was a process to select a venue for it to be placed and, once that was chosen, construction of the surrounding monument (the pedestal and the entire structure on top of Corcovado mountain — I do not believe, however, that Brazil or Brazilians had any part in the construction of the actual statue, and thus in selecting its appearance). I can do further research on this, to be certain. But what was the source for the information that is in the article now? Regards, Redux 10:51, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
The statue was not a gift - it was paid for with donations collected by the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro, under the supervision of a Brazilian engineer, Heitor da Silva Costa. The final design was done by a Franco-Polish architect, Paul Landowsky, and parts of the statue were built in France as they already had experience in building large statues. antiuser 17:33, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
This particular issue has just been addressed in a report of ‘Mais Você’ (TV show broadcast by Globo network) about the exhibition being currently held in Rio about the statue (‘Exposição Christo Redemptor’), and they mentioned that although the story about it having been a gift from the French, that’s a historical lie/legend with no concrete basis other than parts of the statue having been built in France (as mentioned by antiuser above). Psi-Lord 10:46, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] copyvio
Note that text prior to revision as of 05:19, 28 February 2006 was not copyvio. I would suggest reverting to this revision. akaDruid 14:35, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
- The article was never properly submitted as a copyvio, as it was never added to the WP:COPYVIO page. That page clearly states that articles should only be so listed where all revisions have copyright problems, and this article has over a years worth of non-copyvio revisions, so that is probably a good thing. As the article was never properly listed, the copyvio template's injunctions not to further edit the article are null and void. I'm therefore following the correct procedure for this case, again as described in WP:COPYVIO, and reverting the article to the most recent revision not containing copyvio. -- Chris j wood 18:47, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The world's three Christ statues
Hello all,
Someone might want to point out in this article that there are three (I think it's three) of these statues in various places throughout the world - one in Rio, one in Havana, Cuba, one in Europe I believe. All of the statues intentionally face one another. I thought I had a photograph of the statue in the Havana suburb of Regla but alas, it seems to be lost.
Cheers,
Goatboy95 19:42, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Photo Caption - Needs to be changed
The phonto caption on this page seems to be vandalized it says "Christ the **shole licker". I'm not a regular editor so I want to leave this up to the people that know what they are doing to change it.
