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Request Edit July 2021
I have a suggestion for improving the Wikipedia page for the National Museum of American Jewish History, a Smithsonian-affiliated museum in Philadelphia. I propose including the inductees to their Hall of Fame and a related permanent exhibit. The WP:GA Canada's Walk of Fame serves as a model, with the lists of inductees listed with their years of induction and category for induction. The NMAJH Hall of fame has been covered in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal , the Philadelphia Inquirer , and many other media outlets. I believe the sourcing for the proposed section is stronger than that of the GA article on Canada’s Walk of Fame. Note that I may have a conflict of interest because I work for one of the 23 inductees, David Copperfield (illusionist).

Proposal 1: In the section “Exhibitions”, please create a new subsection with:

A sub-section header:

Hall of Fame and Gallery

And description:

Started in 2010, the National Museum of American Jewish History Hall of Fame and a related permanent exhibition gallery honors the lives of prominent Jewish Americans. The initial class of eighteen inductees was chosen both by a public vote and a panel of historians and experts. Inductees were elected in one of eight categories. In 2016 The exhibit contains short films about the inductees’ lives and artifacts, including Sandy Koufax’s baseball mitt and sheet music from Irving Berlin. In 2016 the exhibition was renamed the Ed Snider Only in America gallery, named after the former chairman of Comcast Spectacor.

Reason: The NMJAH Hall of Fame and the permanent gallery has been covered in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer and many other media outlets. Its sourcing is as strong or stronger as the WP: GA Canada's Walk of Fame.

It is also one of the main attractions of the Smithsonian-affiliated National Museum of American Jewish History, on the first floor of the museum, so is an important missing element of the Exhibition section,

Proposal 2: In the new subsection “Hall of Fame and gallery,” please create the following table:

Honorees
Thank you for your consideration. MagicTech1902 (talk) 16:13, 9 July 2021 (UTC)


 * ✅ Done. I removed the repeated citation and revised the sentence regarding the opening of the exhibit. (It didn't open in 2016; the post-gazette article source was written in 2010 when the exhibit opened). According to the post-gazette article, the exhibit featured the lives and accomplishments of the inductees in one film, so I revised the sentence to reflect this information. The source provided doesn't indicate when the Hall of Fame was renamed in Ed Snider's honor; it says Snider named the Gallery and Hall of Fame 'Only in America' in 2006. I added  and made minor revisions to support that it was renamed in Snider's honor, but I couldn't find a source detailing when it was renamed. Thanks, Heartmusic678 (talk) 17:55, 20 July 2021 (UTC)