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[edit] Assessment examples

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[edit] Jewish Museum (London)

Could somebody take a look at this?

The museum's press officer has replaced our existing article with a verbatim dump of text from the museum's website.

There is probably material there that should be usefully be kept and added to what we have already, but for a couple of reasons I'd prefer not to get involved myself.

(Also flagged at WT:LONDON) -- Jheald (talk) 13:43, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] WP:GLAM

Hi all, I thought I'd leave a note here to say that I'm looking at creating a place for keeping together all of the advice and policies etc. that we have for people who work as professionals in the library/archive/museum field who wish to join in with Wikipedia. I propose to eventually place it at WP:GLAM but it's currently in preparation here User:Witty_lama/Sandbox (and equivalent talkpage). The idea is not to conflict with this wikiproject-museums but to be a repository of information and one-stop-shop for culture-sector professionals. It would, of course, reference out to here and to relevant policies like CoI, External Links and Notability. I'd appreciate any feedback and scoping advice you have, and would hope that the two things can work together to greatly improve the quality of the content related to museums on WP. Witty Lama 06:54, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

This page is now published at Wikipedia:advice for the cultural sector (aka WP:GLAM. Feel free to comment. It refers out to this wikiproject several times so some people may come across. Perhaps you might like to refer out to it from here too? Sincerely Witty Lama 15:17, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Mention of museums in big city articles

Hi, I am aware this may fall somewhat beyond the scope of this project, but other relevant projects are either too general in scope or too many in number to address this issue. I started by noticing that the Kansas City article had nowhere a section or subsection for its museums, though the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art are both mentioned as major art museums of North America. There are also a few History museums that woiuld justify a such a section. But before acting, I looked at some other big European and American cities with notable art, history or archeology museums to see if such a section exists. Here is a brief picture of what I got: User:Hoverfish/Sandbox#Culture sections / Main_sights / Tourism >> Museums. Some have a Culture section with a Museums subsection plus link to main article or list, some have it under Main Sights or Urban Landscape, some under Tourism, and some, surprisingly including Rome, none except from a poor mention of a couple or so under Economy /tourism. I think it would be an improvement for Wikipedia if the mention of museums in big city articles with important ones was more uniform. Maybe a suggestion/guideline from your project to other relevant projects? Hoverfish Talk 15:54, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] GA reassessment of City and Town Hall

I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found some concerns with the referencing which you can see at Talk:City and Town Hall/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 21:57, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Museums in Oregon by county

I don't know if other states have these subdivisions, but my view is this splits them too finely, particularly given that most subcategories only have one entry. I doubt most people interested in museums care which county they are in, however interesting that might be to Oregon buffs. So I thought I'd bring this to the project's attention. A related discussion on -by county categorization generally is at CFD. postdlf (talk) 02:58, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion on splitting Category:Maritime museums and museum ships

There is an ongoing category discussion about Maritime museums and museum ships here: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 November 18#Category:Maritime museums and museum ships in Ireland. It started from a specific problem of Ireland , which brought up the need of reordering this categorization branch. Hoverfish Talk 11:13, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] GA reassessment of Rancho Camulos

I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found some concerns with the referencing which you can see at Talk:Rancho Camulos/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 20:38, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] GA reassessment of Vilnius Castle Complex

I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found some concerns with the referencing which you can see at Talk:Vilnius Castle Complex/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 22:51, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

I have expanded this stub about the National Museum of Western Art to include information about the building, its construction and history and have included additional printed references. Would somebody be able to reassess it for quality please? Kenchikuben (talk) 15:56, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

I've raised it to B, but please place a museum infobox where the lead image is. The guideline says to avoid images in the lead, but I've seen several in class B. You could also place the image IN the infobox and include a map, as in this example: Museum of Modern Art. Hoverfish Talk 17:55, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Maritime museums and ships discussion (proposed split)

discussion to split the category worldwide Your comments may be useful dm (talk) 18:16, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] C-Class assessment

Since I will be doing some occasional assessment, mostly in developing stubs, can someone please help me understand the lower and upper inclusion limits for Category:C-Class Museums articles. I have looked into the lot and can't find any set rule. Many look like basic Start and some seem to be way into B. Also am I to understand that the V.1.0 Editorial Team doesn't take under consideration C-Class articles? Hoverfish Talk 07:10, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

drive by comment, but I'm not sure the assessment guidelines were ever finalized. Probably need to revisit that with input from newer contributors StarM 03:00, 24 November 2009 (UTC)