User talk:MrsTumbleweed

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Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 19:38, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Student assignments

Hallo MrsTumbleweed and welcome to Wikipedia. Thackray Medical Museum is on my watchlist (I see I did a major rewrite of it in 2007!) so I spotted your message on the talk page.

It's great that students are introduced to writing for Wikipedia, but there can be problems. Please encourage the lecturer involved to read Wikipedia:Student assignments, and to set up a "course page" for the course. Have a look at Wikipedia:Training/For_students and encourage your classmates to do so too. Add {{Educational assignment}} to the talk page of the article you'll be working on ... done it, for Thackray, but if you have a course page you should link to it from that template.

Remember that this is an encyclopedia, not a tourist guidebook, so there's a limit as to how much detail about a museum needs to be added. In formatting the page layout, make sure that you really understand what you're doing and that your edits conform to standard Wikipedia practice - students often barge in and add section headings in CAPITALS or other formats which reflect how they've been told to produce written work but which don't comply with WP:MOS, the "Manual of Style". On a quick look it could certainly do with some section headings, at the least. It's had various editors having a go at it over the years, in the nature of Wikipedia, and expanded beyond the couple of paragraphs, without section headings, of 2007. Good luck. PamD 11:44, 28 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I sometimes try to find a "Featured article" on a topic of the same kind, as a guide to what the very best Wikipedia article on, say, a museum, ought to look like - but the only two museums I spotted at Wikipedia:Featured_articles are each rather unusual: Icelandic Phallological Museum and Museum of Bad Art! But they might help, showing use of Infobox etc. I'm just going to try and find the listed building record to add - wasn't familiar with the database, if it existed, in 2007. PamD 12:02, 28 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox for Thackray

It's interesting that Medical museum comes up as a redlink even when I turn the second "M" into "m" to standardise it! Looking at Category:Types of museum there's nothing for medicine, although Category:Medical museums shows that there are plenty of them. It would be an intersting little side project to create an article Medical museum describing the genre, on the same lines as the existing articles in Category:Types of museum. I'd likely have done it except that I have a whole lot of Real Life stuff I really ought to get done today. You might like to have a go? PamD 12:58, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That's a really great suggestion. I have created a medical museum page and it's being gradually populated. It's also solved the redlink. Many thanks PamD. MrsTumbleweed (talk) 16:51, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]