Talk:Monument Avenue

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[edit] More Sources; More Detail

I just undertook a clean-up of this article that addressed style, grammar, spelling, sectioning, NPOV issues, and factual issues. I tried to keep the facts to what I as a former Richmond resident would consider to be 'common knowledge'. The article needs citations however, and hopefully more insightful detail, which a Richmond civic historian would be better positioned to research and write than I am.

If there is going to be a separate write-up for the monuments to Maury and Ashe, shouldn't there also be detail given for the other four? I removed anything from the original write-up of Maury's statue that sounded more like Maury's bio than it did info on the statue. I didn't check Maury's article to see if that stuff should be moved (I can only do so much in one evening!), so if an editor wants to check the previous versions for stuff to include in the bio article, have at it.

I also took non-NPOV out of the section on Ashe's statue, and will revert any reintroduction of bias. I resided in Richmond at the time that Ashe's statue was unveiled, and I think that controversy deserves more detailed treatment in this article since it was such a big part of Richmond's civic history in the 1990s. I am not the best person to do the research needed to write this properly, since I am not too familiar anymore with the potential reference sources. I hope someone takes this on.

I changed the rating of this article from Stub to Start because it includes quite a few broad facts on the topic (enough to warrant complex sectioning), but not a lot of detail yet. I personally contributed few facts to the article; nearly all of what's there after my revision was there before, I just prettied it up a bit.

--Erielhonan 08:49, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

I added most of the basic info about the statues - (including stubs for the artists) and most of the pictures and whar reference there is, but that was after driving through Richmond in one afternoon. I'm now 2,000 miles away. The book/pamphlet probably has more info on how the statues came to be. As I recall, the Maury article is a mess - seemed to be written by his Great-great-grandson as a 7th grade history project - but it might be better now. Carptrash 14:32, 3 November 2006 (UTC)