Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Baham Museum


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. ✗ plicit  00:46, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Baham Museum

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Could not find any indepth coverage in gnews, gbooks and gscholar to meet WP:ORG. LibStar (talk) 00:32, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep I’ve added four refs. There’s more. Mccapra (talk) 03:59, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Whilst new sources are welcome, I'm not sure they meet WP:SIGCOV:
 * - This one has a single mention of Baham in 11 pages.
 * No, it describes the background and context of the creation of museums in Cameroon, makes clear why this particular region was important, and describes how and why this museum (and others) were established. Mccapra (talk) 06:24, 13 April 2023 (UTC)


 * - This one is merely a book sale listing from the catalogue of the museum.
 * Yes it shows that the museum has a published scholarly catalogue Mccapra (talk) 06:20, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

LibStar (talk) 04:19, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
 * - This one appears to be small 1 line mentions 3 or 4 times of the museum.
 * The article is about four museums in Cameroon, one of which is this one. It is discussing what they have in common so literally the entire article is about it and its three sister museums. Mccapra (talk) 06:20, 13 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Cameroon-related deletion discussions. LibStar (talk) 04:53, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Museums and libraries-related deletion discussions. LibStar (talk) 04:55, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep as sources have been found by . Yes, we can be all pernickity and complain that the sources don't discuss these museums in the depth we would expect of a Western developed source discussing a Western major regional museum, but we're doing a big disservice to museums and the spread of human knowledge if we delete without judging the institution in its regional context. There is no benefit to our reader or to Wikipedia in deleting this article, and there is hope that, in time, it will grow and contribute to an area that Wikipedia currently covers rather poorly. Elemimele (talk) 08:01, 13 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Keep - in addition to the sources already mentioned, there is an UCLA PhD thesis by Erica Perlmutter Jones on The Multiple Lives of Objects: Museum, Memory, and Modernity in the Cameroon Grassfields which discusses the Baham and the Babungo Museums in detail. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:56, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep per sources identified by, passes the WP:GNG + WP:NEXIST. Regards, --Goldsztajn (talk) 12:10, 19 April 2023 (UTC)


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