Talk:Geological Museum

An article has been created for the Earth Hall, which in intent seems to cover just the main hall, but since there is little to talk about for the room by itself is already expanding out to discuss the rest of the galleries in the Geological Museum, making it a clear duplicate of this page. I propose that what non-duplicate info can be found there be merged with this article.— Preceding unsigned comment added by ThePaintedOne (talk • contribs)

• Support merger - the content of Earth Hall, edited to make it more encyclopedic and remove the exclamation marks, ought to be in Geological Museum. PamD (talk) 11:48, 4 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Disagree With Merger

I disagree because the Earth Hall is a very significant part of the museum and should have its own article.

Thanks WILLROCKS10 (talk) 09:11, 5 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

• Support merger - I agree with the proposal - the space is not generally known by this title outside the museum --Lang rabbie 12:42, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
• Three for and one against is looking like a consensus to me. I'll leave the discussion up here a little while longer, as this is not the busiest part of Wikipedia, then if the consensus stands I'll look to do the merge towards the end of the month.--ThePaintedOne (talk) 08:15, 10 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

The following was merged from Earth Hall.

I can't see the point of this article. The hall by itself is not massively notable, other than it being the entrance to the geological museum, which already has a more detailed section on the main museum article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_History_Museum#Geological_Museum

I'd say merge, but that article already has more info than this one on this subject, so it would make more sense to put any additional material there and delete this one.

serously you are annoying me know you have deleted most of the articles I have created.

WILLROCKS10 (talk) 12:55, 3 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

I haven't propsed this for deletion for exactly that reason. Instead I've put a not on here alerting you to the problem with the article before someone else comes along and does it. Note, I haven't deleted any of your articles, I proposed a few and the community agreed. Other people proposed several of your articles and I agreed with them. This is how wikipedia works. If your articles keep getting deleted, it is because the articles aren't suitable for wikipedia.--ThePaintedOne (talk) 13:06, 3 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Oh thats nice! NOT!

WILLROCKS10 (talk) 13:01, 4 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Couple of note. Firstly, it's pretty much impossible for a non-admin to vandalise a page by deleting it. All I could do would be to add a Prod or AfD tag to the article (neither of which I have done) and then let the community decide what to do with it. Neither of these are vandalism. As for 'cleanup', if the issue is that the subject is not notable for an article by itself, you can't clean it up. This has been the problem with all your previous articles that were deleted, not the text you put in, but the subjects you chose.--ThePaintedOne (talk) 13:38, 3 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Hi,

Yeah, I 100% agree with you. As I know him i've been trying to tell him how Wikipedia works. It's just life if your articles get deleted. Wikipedia would just end up with junk-By this i mean some of the article, not necessarily this one. It can be a good page if we can get information on it. I suggest not to merge it or delete it if an AFD or something similar occurs.

Thanks, pbl1998--Pbl1998 (talk) 17:50, 3 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

The question here is why create this article? The Earth Hall itself, while impressive, is really not notable other than for being a room in the Natural History museum. The appropriate place to mention it is on that article, where it already has mention. In trying to expand this article all you've done is start talking about other rooms in the musuem which aren't the Earth Hall! So you're essentially creating a duplicate of that part of the Museum article. The only reason to create a seperate article from a section of an existing article, is where that section is becoming too large to be contained within the parent. But that patently isn't the case here as your article is smaller than the parent section. --ThePaintedOne (talk) 18:07, 3 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Couple of notes, firstly the space this is supposedly about is actually called 'Visions of Earth' http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/galleries/red-zone/visions-of-earth/index.html the Earth Hall name is just used for hiring it out. Secondly, I had previously managed to miss that there is an existing article for the Geological Museum, which makes this article a duplicate of that one. What non duplicate content there is here needs to be merged to that article, there is no sense having two articles for what is clearly the same thing.--ThePaintedOne (talk) 08:03, 4 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Merge discussion here