{"id":116,"date":"2024-11-23T15:39:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T15:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/chriniblog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2024-12-03T19:09:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T19:09:30","slug":"article-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/chriniblog\/2024\/11\/23\/article-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia Article Rejected!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chrinitoid Fans: my Wikipedia article on the Chrinitoid was rejected due to lack of sufficient references. I actually thought I found a surprisingly long list. Do any of you know any others? Or have experience authoring Wikipedia articles?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Draft:Chrinitoid<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the current text:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Chrinitoid<\/strong>\u00a0is the common name of a large\u00a0kinetic sculpture<\/a>\u00a0installed on the campus of\u00a0Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute<\/a>\u00a0(RPI) from 1972 to 1984.[1]<\/a><\/sup>. The sculpture, officially known as “Two Rectangles, Vertical Gyratory Up, Variation III<\/strong>“, was created by\u00a0George Rickey<\/a>\u00a0who was an adjunct professor of art in the School of Architecture at RPI from 1961 to 1966.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The origin of the name has been attributed to an article in the campus humor magazine, The Unicorn<\/em>. The article was titled “I am Joe’s Chrinitoid” and included an illustration that resembled the sculpture. The Unicorn referenced The Chrinitoid in a second issue with a cover story titled “The Chrinitoid Crisis”[2]<\/a><\/sup> featuring a parody of the sculpture portraying its iconic panels as slide rule<\/a>s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chrinitoid was also referenced in Steve Stanton and Tom White’s parody work “Not the Rensselaer Handbook”[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chrinitoid<\/strong> – n. (RPI) Two Rectangles Vertical Gyratory Up, a kinetic metal sculpture which was lent to the Institute by the sculptor, George Rickey, a professor at RPI from 1961 to 1966. Often confused with meteorological equipment on the Science Center. Although gone, it may be coming back.<\/td><\/tr>
~ Not the Rensselaer Handbook<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Chrinitoid was removed from campus in 1984[4]<\/a><\/sup> and moved to Rickey’s workshop in East Chatham, NY. It was sold to UBS<\/a> in 1990[5]<\/a><\/sup> and installed at their Schanzenbr\u00fccke-Building in Zurich[6]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sculpture was originally built in 1970 and stood 35′ tall. Each of the rectangular panels are 19’6″ x 59″. In a 1979 interview[7]<\/a><\/sup>, Rickey mentioned the dimensions of a similar variant (Two Rectangles Vertical Gyratory II, Variation IV) as 20′ long, 5′ wide and 10″ thick, each weighing about 1000 pounds and the post weighed about ton and a half and was rated to withstand winds of 80 miles per hour. He noted that the variant at RPI was “somewhat smaller”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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