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December 24, 2004	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
February 4, 2005	Featured article candidate	Promoted
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May 16, 2006	Featured article review	Demoted
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Art or vandalism?

A huge amount of this article is devoted to the notion of graffiti as an artform, and yet the majority of graffiti is criminal juvenile tagging, endlessly repeated, without talent, originality or imagination. Nowhere does the article mention that graffiti is unpopular, and yet it is. A 2014 Yougov poll (for example), conducted in the UK, showed that only 15% of the population actually liked graffiti, whereas 45% of the population positively disliked it, albeit that a slim majority agreed with the (totally irrelevant) postulation that some graffiti could be considered art. It goes without saying that some graffiti could of course be considered art: but unfortunately it's only about 0.001% of it. Surely the unpopularity of graffiti should be mentioned? ( This unsigned edit was added 19:03, 11 September 2021 by IP 185.108.92.22 )

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CHANGE: trains were covered in graffiti (1973). TO: train covered in graffiti (1973).

The original caption states that "trains were covered in graffiti"; implying all trains (since 'train(s)'), used to be (since 'were') covered in graffiti. The photo shows one singular train covered in graffiti and does not cite any sources stating that every single train in NYC was covered in graffiti in 1973; which was allegedly since removed. ParanormaI (talk) 03:48, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like you were able to complete this yourself. Thanks for fixing the caption! Marking as answered. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 04:44, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright

Huge long article without any mention of the term copyright. Why? Likewise: graffiti is not mentioned in public domain, why ? Wuerzele (talk) 18:57, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Writing (graffiti) began in the 1960’s.

Error in article as writing began earlier than 1970, in the 1960’s. ChristineDefazioArts (talk) 18:49, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

COCO 144 used the first stencil.

COCO 144 was the first writer to use a stencil. ChristineDefazioArts (talk) 18:50, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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"Modern graffiti began in the New York City subway system and Philadelphia in the early 1970s to the rest of the United States throughout the world."

English isn't my first language but I can tell the latter part of this sentence in the lead section doesn't make sense.

You are welcome to revise it to a better variation - this is more a notice and suggestion rather than an explicit revision - but here is my request: please change the above to something like

"...in the early 1970s and spread to the rest of the United States, then influenced graffiti styles throughout the world."

The reason I would phrase it like that is because the article later says that "in the 1980s, American graffiti and hiphop began to influence the European graffiti scene".

Thanks! 2A02:C7E:2F68:AC00:9C8F:3778:1CFF:8994 (talk) 12:39, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done, thanks. DrOrinScrivello (talk) 16:54, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]