Talk:Whanganui Regional Museum

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Contested deletion[edit]

This page should not be speedy deleted as an unambiguous copyright infringement, because... it is a starting page --Svage Hardy (talk) 23:38, 23 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sources for improving this article[edit]

I'm a curator at the Whanganui Regional Museum, and am quite aware of possible conflicts of interest with editing this article. I've fixed a factual error (the opening date) and added a couple of references to improve it, but it's still at stub quality and I feel it'd be inappropriate to do any more myself.

If anyone wanted to work on the article, here are some useful sources:

Samuel Henry Drew and his biography in Te Ara (already referenced)
An article in the Museum blog on the Makirikiri moa collection
History of the buildings by the Wanganui Library
Photo of director Max Smart, in about 1951
The NZ Museums listing from which much of the original entry seems to have been plagiarised
News stories on the appointment of Harry Drew as assistant curator (19 Sept 1900), the appointment of G.R. Marriner as curator (27 July 1908), the museum as a fire-trap – new building needed (14 July 1914).
Rowan Carroll's 2008 Master's Thesis on the Museum's acquisition of the Partington Collection and its bicameral Māori/Pākehā governance
A web page on the exterior paint job, of all things, which includes useful information on the timing of name change and benefactor, not mentioned in other web resources!

There is also Keith Thomson's Art Galleries and Museums of New Zealand (Reed, 1981), but this has several typos and inaccuracies in its listing on the Museum and should be used with caution. Hope this is useful, and others feel inspired to help fix it! Giantflightlessbirds —(talk) 04:26, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also a weekly WANGANUI PUBLIC MUSEUM or PUBLIC MUSEUM column by the curator was published in the Wanganui Chronicle, listing acquisitions and other news: for example 15 May 1893. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 04:49, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've made a start on these changes and intend to do more in future. Rosalindaymes (talk) 08:48, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much! I noticed a mistake in the access dates for a couple of the URLs (1933) and fixed them. You've uncovered a couple of newspaper stories I hadn't seen before, so now I have to go back and re-examine the collection history of our various moa specimens – thank you! Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 21:41, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Rewrite needed[edit]

I've noticed than some well-meaning anonymous editors have been adding promotional and PR content that doesn't fit Wikipedia's style. Ideally I would simply rewrite the page, adding citations for the Whakahoutanga project (like this one), and an infobox with a clear link to the Museum's website where information like location and hours are easily findable. Since I have a conflict of interest, and since these exceed the definition of uncontroversial edits, I'm proposing the changes here first. Note that I made some detailed suggestions for a general rewrite of this page over a year ago, and nothing much has happened! If necessary I'll submit an edit request of course. If anyone has any objections let me know. Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 20:57, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've done a slash and dash. Visitor info has been updated at https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Whanganui. Wikivoyage is not really concerned about COI, and accepts original research, so you can have a freer rein there. Just don't tout. Nurg (talk) 10:35, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]