Talk:Art handler

Laura, I think you did a great job describing the Art Handler position. It was helpful that you listed and linked other museum professionals that they work closely with. The section you created on training is important; I wonder if education could be included in it as well. I also hadn’t thought of private collections, so kudos for including them! Have you thought about adding auction houses to the Employment section too? The only thing that might be missing according to the Wikipedia guidelines is some sort of media, but I struggled with this too! According to others in the class, we’ll be able to add images once we’ve made a certain number of edits. Larmst23 (talk) 21:40, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Art Handler Review
Laura, Reading your description of Art Handlers was very informative. I think you covered the highlights of what it is to be an Art Handler and what is expected of the people in this profession. The Training section, always a good thing to include in my opinion, included helpful information for those interested in this area. I particularly like that you added carpentry as being useful in this profession. The article is nicely neutral and well researched but I am not seeing any references. This might be something to add as well as a photo showing a crate or packing material. Great job! Jdolsson10 (talk) 18:43, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Art Handler Review
This looks like a very narrow, museum focused review of Art Handler, I'm going to add some wording to address this as most of the people I know in this profession work outside of the museum scope and most of my direct experience is outside of the museum world.

Lumpytrout (talk) 15:22, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Addition to External Links
Hello Wikipedia Folks, I have worked in museums for over 20 years. Being an art handler is a trade, it's not something you start doing with prior knowledge. If you have the aptitude and will, you can pursue it as a career. I started MuseumTrade.org in 2014 to collect all the work that we do as art handlers. It has a community focus, all are welcome to contribute. Like the museums I love, there is no commercial goal, there are no ads or products, we don't sell data, this is simply for the good of the world. It's aim is to make all of us better so we don't have to reinvent the wheel. It would impossible to include all the things we do on a wikipedia page, so I had put in an external link to MuseumTrade.org and it was (rightfully) taken down. My apologies for not entering this in on the talk page, I'm still learning about how Wikipedia works. I do think those coming to the Art Handler page would benefit from a deeper dive into MuseumTrade.org and I hope that you agree. I'm not looking for any free backlinks or any black hat cheats, just wanted to help out those interested in the things we do. Respectfully, MattIsble (talk) 21:49, 5 March 2020 (UTC)Matt

FROM MrOllie: Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Exhibition designer. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. [1] MrOllie (talk) 18:18, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for the eduction Mr.Ollie, truly.