User talk:Long Shop Museum

March 2014
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The Long Shop
Hi. I wonder if I can lend a hand?

The edits you've been making to Long Shop Museum are far too promotional. They're written as if wikipedia is the museum which, clearly, it isn't. That's not the style we're looking for at all in articles about places such as the Long Shop. It's just not the way it's done I'm afraid - we need to be much more encyclopaedic in what and how we write.

I've made an effort to add a little detail to the article and to add some sources. Oddly I couldn't find all that much in the way of press reports. I work in Leiston and know of the museum. It's certainly an article that could use some expansion. If you'd like some help in doing so then add a note here (read about how to use talk pages at WP:TPG) or on my talk page or the article talk page.

You may find, by the way, that this account is blocked because the name identifies too closely with the museum (see WP:ORGNAME). You might find it easier to create a new account to continue editing as required - perhaps something such as emmaatlongshop might work? Blue Square Thing (talk) 23:48, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi

Thank you for your offer of help with the Long Shop Museum page. I would definitely appreciate some help because I am new to editing Wiki pages. You are correct about what you said about the content I added and in the interest of providing more information I simply copy pasted text from the museum website which in hindsight wasn't the right thing to do.

I have been tasked with the marketing of the media and improving our online presence and I was very aware that the content of the Wiki page was very poor hence my effort to improve it. I would dearly love to add some more photos and to be more informative. I work at the museum so we should have information on the history and how the museum came to be as well as the history of the works itself.

I will also change my name to something more appropriate. Thank you again for your support with this page. Long Shop Museum (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.44.6.167 (talk) 00:34, 2 March 2014 (UTC)


 * No problem. Once you have a user name drop a note here. I would suggest we then work on a draft of the article. Looking at WP:MUSEUM suggests that we should look to split the article into sections including:
 * History - of the museum - I believe it was founded in the 70s when the building went out of use by Garretts? And that it took some saving?
 * Building - I made start on this but I think it can be expanded
 * Collections - I believe there is some art work in the museum for example? And some stuff about things other than Garretts - the air base perhaps? It might also be worth thinking about events - is the Final Fling still occurring? And I understand there are some local history events that go on?
 * Management - if appropriate. I have no idea how it's managed!


 * I presume that a lot of this stuff is documented - and that the museum is likely to have access to a press archive for example (it seems difficult to find stuff electronically as it happens)? That will make an excellent resource so that we can reference the things we want to say about it. If necessary I might be able to arrange to get to the museum to look at a few things with you?


 * One more thing - should the article be Long Shop Museum or The Long Shop Museum? My gut feeling is that it might be better as the later, but I'm happy to go with what would be easiest. Blue Square Thing (talk) 12:48, 2 March 2014 (UTC)