Talk:Museum label

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sections
The article has Introduction, Section, Object Labels and Credit Panel.

Serrell recognizes
 * Interpretive Labels:
 * Title Labels
 * Introductory or orientation labels
 * Section or group labels
 * Captions (Object Labels)
 * Non-Interpretive Labels:
 * Identification Labels
 * Donor Information
 * Credit Panels
 * Wayfinding and Orientation Signs
 * Prohibitive Signs

I believe this article would be much better and much more useful if rewritten in this format. Thoughts?

MikeVdP (talk) 16:02, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Not really - neither Serrell nor the types currently used in the article are especially authoritative, nor is the article very clear. We should concentrate on generalizing as to what a range of museums currently actually do, expressing this with clarity and precision. Johnbod (talk) 16:12, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Images
Can you please refrain from edit warring with me here? You're really acting like you own this article, really controlling any changes made to it. Please let's discuss here. ɱ (talk) 17:55, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

MOS:UPRIGHT specifies that tall and narrow images (portrait orientation) should use upright with a scale of 1 or less. Especially tall images, like the two in the article, should have smaller widths to be a smaller size, especially on articles like this, where there is a high image-to-text ratio. ɱ (talk) 18:00, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

The images of German and Polish museum labels provide nothing new to the article, besides that one has a longer description than the lede image, and one features a different language. Neither are things of focus in the article, or of that much relevance - people can easily imagine that museum labels in large/diverse cities feature multiple languages just as road signs do...

Meanwhile an image of a more unique museum label, like the Cole House label, shows readers that museums can and do go beyond the norm of a square/rectangular, black-and-white printed text label. I can cite numerous instances of museums around the world that are doing this; it is an increasing trend with a purpose of making museums more interesting/interactive/fun to attract a larger audience. ɱ (talk) 18:04, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Examples of labels that aren't black-text-on-white-box types

 * here at the Minnesota History Center
 * here at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site
 * here at the Worcester Art Museum
 * here at the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History
 * here at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
 * here at the Jewish Museum

Examples of reports on interactive/creative labels and their advantages over the norm

 * https://blogs.stockton.edu/amst5013/files/2013/12/Chadler-Screven-Motivating-Visitors-ILVF-Review.pdf
 * https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/sce.20291
 * https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.2151-6952.1989.tb00718.x
 * https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3174197


 * I think we can see who is asserting ownership here, and also resisting my attempts to globalize the article, for which it is rightly tagged. MOS:UPRIGHT says nothing that means the Polish image (by no means "narrow") needs an upright. Both my images added considerably to the article - the Polish one was a much-needed section label, and you appear not to have noticed that I have added text on different languages, which everywhere except the US is a considerable feature of labels. Meanwhile you revert to restore the frankly highly unusual (and of course American) "book" label. ALL your new examples are OF COURSE American.... We should try to cover conventional labels properly before worrying too much about experimental ones (so far barely touched on in the text).Johnbod (talk) 18:42, 1 April 2019 (UTC)


 * The globalization tag is more about the text in the article covering the topic in all parts of the world. It's not a requirement that we use images from every part of the world, especially when they look nearly the same. Calm down and please let's keep talking this over; you're still accusing me of things, using full caps, etc. There's no need for that. Also, this is the English Wikipedia; I think it's important that English-speaking readers can read the images' text in most of the examples if not all. MOS:UPRIGHT also says that tall and narrow images should be at smaller sizes; if you can't read that I don't know how to help you. ɱ  (talk) 18:48, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
 * The Polish image is 1308 x 1780: this is seen as a portrait format, with the height larger than the width. Images with a landscape format are typically 6000 x 4000 or a similar proportion, with width being significantly larger than the height. This really shouldn't be that difficult. ɱ  (talk) 18:48, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I can add information in the article about more modern museum labels, by no means "experimental", but however the future of museum design, already in place in museums that aim to be current. The Polish label provides nothing new or useful to the reader, nor really does the German label. Perhaps edit the article text to specify how (if at all) other countries' labels are different from US/UK labels. That is the true intention of the tag, not to include a freakin label from every continent. WP:NOTGALLERY. ɱ  (talk) 18:51, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Not all portrait images are "narrow". All the images have the text in English. You are now flailing wildly, misapplying policy right and left. Perhaps calm down. Johnbod (talk) 21:07, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
 * "Short, wide images often call for upright of 1 or greater; tall, narrow images may look best with upright of 1 or less." The two images I'm talking about are tall and narrow, that's so obvious it's like You don't need to cite that the sky is blue. ɱ  (talk) 16:37, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

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