I just noticed this thread. I was the person who denied Dave Harris' submission...and I must say the whole story is not being told. The submission was denied because, although he did obviously do a lot of work researching the statue, he did not describe the figure sufficiently...life-sized? wearing, doing? etc. Artist? Date? Plinth? This category requires a full description. Not just a bio of the figure. This was explained.
The other deadly failure.... mentioned in the declination was that quotations were in the Waymark without attribution. The submitter failed to make these changes and decided to continued to resubmit the Waymark without further changes. That is when I sent the matter to a vote..to explain to the category managers what was happening..and to stop the continual submission of the same Waymark with the (regrettable) threat by the submitter that he would just archive the submission and quit the category.