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I'm not sure we need this article. It's essentially the same information as in the main Alan Turing article, and I don't believe its ever likely to grow beyond a stub. — Matt 23:09, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Perhaps, but because I added a Public Monuments section on the main Manchester page I thought it was appropriate. The main Alan Turing article is about the man rather than the monument. Also it allows a reader to link from the monument (which they may have seen without knowing the background) to the main Article. DanCupid 30 Nov 04

I'm not sure there is an "Alan Turing memorial garden on Sackville street". There is a small park there - see Whitworth Gardens

ok - my mistake (again!) --DanCupid 17:57, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

can we ever know this?

"Turing committed suicide in 1954..." While is seems very likely that this is the case, there is more to it.

From the Alan Turing Article "...he had died of cyanide poisoning, apparently from a cyanide-laced apple he left half-eaten beside his bed. The apple itself was never tested for contamination with cyanide, and cyanide poisoning as a cause of death was established by a post-mortem. Most believe that his death was intentional, and the death was ruled a suicide. His mother, however, strenuously argued that the ingestion was accidental due to his careless storage of laboratory chemicals." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.81.152.130 (talk) 16:59, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Verification

I can verify two facts from the article:

1) As positioned the statue does indeed have the University of Manchester to the left and the Manchester Gay Village to the right. When the statue was unveiled in 2001 the buildings to the left were part of the UMIST complex but since then the two universities have amalgamated.

2) When I attended the unveiling of the statue in 2001 we were told that the Amstrad computer that held the details of all those who contributed to the erection of the statue was buried beneath.

Peter Gant —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.134.24.82 (talk) 20:16, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the verification. As it happens, though, we need something a little stronger under Wikipedia's rules: we need to be able to cite a published source (see WP:RS). — Matt Crypto 19:17, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Is it possible that this photo: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flowers_on_Alan_Turing%27s_Memorial,_as_an_early_part_of_the_flowers_for_Turing_Project..jpg might be added to the page? I took the photo (and wrote the page at http://joereddington.com/flowers-for-turing/ giving the circumstances... ) so It would be a bit of a COI if I put it in... I think it is a nice illustration of the place that Turing holds in people's hearts.

Joe

78.105.236.140 (talk) 21:29, 19 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Me again (I've since registered an account but this would be a conflict of interest).

The project discussed above is still running, and it's got a bit bigger. Is it possible we can upgrade the main photo to one of [1] or [2]? Joe (talk) 18:16, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Reply 11-JUL-2018

All of the required information appears not to have been filled out on the picture's summary page. Most notably, the date and coordinates are missing from the metadata tag. This information supplied when a picture is taken is usually quite significant, yet it is missing from this picture. These items should be completed before the picture can be used. If necessary, please consider uploading a version of the picture where the metadata is preserved in its entirety. (See WP:IUP#RI.) spintendo 18:49, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I was able to recover some of the metadata. I looks like it may have been taken on a Motorola phone. In any event its quality is not that good, and while the others don't include people in the photographs (not counting the one with the Olympic torches) this photo contains background people, most notably, their backsides, which is never a good shot to get.^[a] I'll leave the template open to garner other editor's input on this photograph. spintendo 19:11, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That is quite funny in the circumstances. It also appears I accidently put in the same photo twice, this [3] is the one I intended. I can sort out a less stripped out meta data if that is a blocking problem (pressumably it vanished between emailing it to myself, putting it on blog, and then saving it back down) Joe (talk) 17:28, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Notes

^ A humorous aside here, but at the angle the photograph was taken, it appears as if the statue is staring at this woman's behind. I have a feeling Mr. Turing might have objected to that.

Reply 12-JUL-2018

File appended to the article

I think we have a winner with this newer one. spintendo 06:04, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Joereddington: The picture is dated 22-JUN-2018 (the day before Turing's birthday) so I've reflected that in the caption. However, if the date turns out to have been off by one day, and the picture was actually taken on his birthday, please let me know so I can change the caption. Thank you spintendo 06:22, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

[1] A humorous aside here, but at the angle the photograph was taken, it appears as if the statue is staring at this woman's behind. I have a feeling Mr. Turing might have objected to that.

[a]