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The result was: promoted by BlueMoonset (talk) 18:31, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

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Solow Building

• ... that a sculpture of the number "9" was installed outside the Solow Building (pictured) after its sculptor joked the building's facade could be a "launching pad" for the "9"? Source: Heller, Steven (December 14, 2003). "ART; A Laboratory for Sign Language". The New York Times.
  • ALT1:... that a perpetually closed art gallery in the Solow Building (pictured) inspired the creation of a parody website? Source: "Developer's museum off-limits to the public". Crain's New York Business. April 23, 2018.
  • ALT2:... that the owner of the Solow Building (pictured) tried to evict the Bank of America under a law normally used for evicting drug dealers and prostitutes? Source: Harrigan, Susan (June 1, 2005). "Sihpol case going to jury, Former broker's larceny, fraud trial puts spotlight on probes by New York's attorney general". Newsday. p. 39
  • ALT3:... that the basement stores of the Solow Building (pictured) were empty for three decades, even though it had some of the most expensive office space in New York City? Source: Multiple in article

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Dracophyllum arboreum

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 22:55, 18 August 2021 (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:
• Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Hoary (talk) 08:48, 19 August 2021 (UTC) Updated (because QPQ has now been done) Hoary (talk) 21:51, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Reviewer's comments:

• Unnumbered hook (ALT0?): certainly strange, but somehow uninteresting for me (I can't put my finger on any particular reason). I didn't check if it's backed up in the cited source.
• ALT1: An excellent hook. Yes, it's clearly backed up in the cited source. (If, like me, you're not eligible to be shown the full-sized version, you may like to know that the part of the article cited here is toward its end -- reading the minuscule font almost blinded me.)
• ALT2: Again, an excellent hook; and yes, it's clearly backed up in the cited source.
• ALT3: I'm accustomed to reading about long-empty buildings in "high-rent" areas, buildings owned by the extremely rich who either intend to benefit from arcane tax breaks or are so stupendously wealthy that they just don't care about losing a few tens of millions here or there. And thus ALT3 doesn't interest me. As for "ALT0", I didn't check if it's backed up in the cited source.
• Picture: For either ALT1 or ALT2, I imagine that File:Solow Building New York August 2012.jpg is the picture intended. This file has no copyright complication; and yes it's used in the article, and it would be OK at a width of 100px.
• The status of this proposal as a whole is "?", and not "✓", merely because of the QPQ matter (which I expect will be cleared up soon). Update: For either ALT1 or ALT2: "✓".

-- Hoary (talk) comment originally written 08:48, 19 August 2021 (UTC), reorganized for clarity 22:06, 19 August 2021 (UTC), updated 21:51, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

I really am partial to ALT1, given how interesting and amusing the website is! It's good to share. ɱ (talk) 13:47, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

@Ɱ: Yeah, it really is a funny website. I actually cracked up at that. I think you showed it to me before, which is why I was inspired to write it as an alt hook. Epicgenius (talk) 14:13, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

@Hoary: Thanks for the review, I appreciate it. I've done a QPQ now. Epicgenius (talk) 14:13, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Noted! -- Hoary (talk) 21:51, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Promoting ALT2 to Prep 3; this had been the hook promoted earlier