Talk:Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens

Name
I suggest simplifying the name to just Phipps Conservatory. Comments? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 01:37, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Phipps Conservatory images
To the person (Hammersoft) who would like to remove my images of the interior of the Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens, I disagree with your view that the three images in question ( File:Phipps5.jpg, File:Phipps4.jpg, File:Phipps2.jpg ) are not acceptable for use in the article just because they show some depictions of three dimensional art glass by Dale Chihuly in them (even though there's a fair use rationale included for use in the Phipps article). Also, I notice some people have included pictures of Dale's art glass in the article about him, some in a gallery too, clearly "depictions of three dimensional art" somehow with completely free licenses and no fair use rationales in any of them. If it's all right for those images, then why not for my images? Anyway, the main reason I disagree with your view that the three images don't have a "proper" fair use rationale for the Phipps article is because there are no other images on Wikipedia of the interior of the Phipps Conservatory to demonstrate what the inside gardens of this historic place actually look like. Therefore, I think it's important to the article, in an encyclopedic way, that is, if anyone is interested to see some inside views of the Phipps Conservatory. It's kinda pretty in there, but that's my opinion (though I know I'm not the only one with that opinion). The plants are there, growing around the art glass. Well, I don't know, but I'm not going to take just one person's opinion on this matter. If you would like to press this further, then I'd like to request that this be reviewed by others who can help decide in a consensus-based way whether or not these images are important enough to be included in the article. Leepaxton (talk) 11:55, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Video link
The video, Conservatory-The Greenest in the World, was placed in the external link section by an anonymous IP. The video was then removed by administrative editor User:Arthur Rubin citing WP:ELNO #11: "Links to blogs, personal web pages and most fansites, except those written by a recognized authority." The linked website that contains the embedded video is clearly not produced by a individual, blog, or fansite, but is rather a profession production by a recognized, national, video magazine that is broadcast nationally on PBS and is focused on a topic that is related to (environmental gardening), but is not remotely exclusive to the subject of the article. Upon review of this video, I have determined the video, which is a lengthy feature on the subject of the article, to be extremely informative about the subject matter, providing a high quality video that gives an informative visual tour of the facility while providing substantial interviews with the facility's director and curator. Perhaps most important, new and interesting information on the building's unique LEED status is presented, and is actually the focus of the video. It is certainly a link, IMO, that provides interesting and important information on the subject and its presence in the external links section would beneficial to any reader hoping to gain a better understanding of the subject. As a previous contributor to this article, I was substantially impressed by the video which leads me to actually question whether the editor that removed it (twice) actually watched it. To be clear, I have no connection either Phipps or the producer of the website or video. I also have no idea if the original anonymous IP who added the link had a COI, but as an independent viewer of the video who does not, I believe it to be of substantial benefit to understanding the mission of the article subject as well as greater details of the article subject that aren't covered in the article's text. If I had been aware of the video previously, I would have added it to the external link section myself, as I had the original linked WQED PBS video which is no more offensive. CrazyPaco (talk) 19:15, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

File:Phipps Conservatory winter 2015 Broderie Room.jpg to appear as POTD soon
Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Phipps Conservatory winter 2015 Broderie Room.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on August 19, 2018. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2018-08-19. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:47, 8 August 2018 (UTC)