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Welcome to the Museums WikiProject! A chunk of this text has been stolen borrowed under GFDL ;) from other Wiki Projects.

Goals
  • Improve Wikipedia's coverage of museums.
  • Improve quality of existing articles
  • Expand smaller museums in non-English dominant countries where articles are little more than a sentence.
  • Create guidelines for articles about museums.
Scope
  • The project covers all articles about museums in a wide range of disciplines and locations throughout the world. By member consensus, it does not include aquaria, herbaria, zoos and other non-museum 'collections' because these are well-covered in other projects.
  • For those within the museum sector, and collaborations between Wikipedia and institutions, see Wikipedia:Advice for the cultural sector.

To Do

Ongoing cleanup

There is an ongoing cleanup/developing in the undeveloped stub articles of Category:Museums in Greece to determine which of them meet with notability standards, develop them to at least basic stubs and nominate for deletion all the rest. You can help here. Participants: User:Thaliapap, User:Hoverfish

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A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

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  • 16 Jan 2025 – Ruidoso River Museum (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Suriname0 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants; relisted)

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Ruidoso River Museum

Ruidoso River Museum (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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I can't find any WP:SIGCOV of this museum at all, and it looks like it may have permanently closed according to social media chatter. The best coverage is passing, promotional mentions like this, which in my view is not sufficient to support a redirect to Ruidoso, New Mexico. This article may be referring to the same museum. Suriname0 (talk) 21:22, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Beeblebrox Beebletalks 22:51, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Weak Delete probably. It looks like the museum was at two locations, the one pictured in the current article and described in the 2008 press release, and I found a Ruidoso News article from 2013 [1] about a move to Fox Cave. That article is significant coverage, but hyperlocal. It is the same museum as in the Roadside America source the nom found [2], which is also SIGCOV - but is it a reliable source? I'm also not sure about the reliability of Atlas Obscura, which has a short article [3] about Fox Cave including one para about this museum. Maybe if you add those to a para in the New Mexico Magazine [4] and the para in True West Magazine [5] found by the nom, it would add up to WP:BASIC - if the sources are considered reliable. If this article is kept, the info about the Fox Cave location will need to be added. RebeccaGreen (talk) 09:26, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Categories

Category:Museums and Category:Exhibitions are the primary categories for this project. Many subcats can be found from those links.

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See also

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