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Did you know... that the now-destroyed statue of Alexander Wood was the first LGBT monument in Canada?

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 12:40, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Statue of Alexander Wood in 2007

... that the now-destroyed statue of Alexander Wood (pictured) was the first LGBT monument in Canada? Source: destroyed, first in Canada
- ALT1: ... that a statue of Alexander Wood (pictured), which was the first LGBT monument in Canada, was destroyed by the same group that commissioned it? Source: destroyed, first in Canada
- Reviewed: The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild

Created by Morgan695 (talk). Self-nominated at 19:11, 6 April 2022 (UTC).[reply]

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: - Some close paraphrasing from [1] and [2]

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith 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: (t · c) buidhe 01:15, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Buidhe: Close paraphrasing has been resolved. Earwigs is still showing 44.1% similarity because it's dinging some attributed quotes and long proper titles/place names. Morgan695 (talk) 04:41, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- (t · c) buidhe 05:29, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

ALT0 to T:DYK/P1 without image

First Gay Monument[edit]

A footnote to the current article suggests that Alan Turing, not Alexander Wood, was the subject of the first monument to a gay individual in the world. I would think that Alexander the Great and the emperor Hadrian have priority here, though their monuments were not primarily to their gaiety. The soldier Sir Hector MacDonald. who shot himself in 1903, had a bust erected at his grave in 1904 and monuments put up in Dingwall and Mulbuie in 1907. He also appears on the Camp Coffee label. NRPanikker (talk) 15:07, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]