Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of museums in the United States


 * 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   no consensus. Various suggestions for improvement short of deletion have been made.  Sandstein  10:40, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

List of museums in the United States

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This is just a shell around ListOfMuseumsByUSStateTOC, which is itself a navbox rather than a table of contents. There are two possible solutions here: deleting the article and converting the template into a proper navbox for transclusion on appropriate topics, or deleting the template and transmogrifying its current contents into a list article at this title. A somewhat nonstandard use of AfD, but as one or the other will require deletion we might as well have it here. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) - talk 09:37, 15 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep Not seeing any reason to delete. The title seems a sensible one which should remain a blue link. Warden (talk) 11:28, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Sigh. Would that you actually bothered to read an AfD before copying your boilerplate response to it. There is no doubt that we could have an article with that title, but the question is what form that should take. If I'd had more sense I'd have taken this to TfD instead and hopefully bypassed this nonsense. Anyone else care to read the presented options and give an opinion on how to move forward here? Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) - talk 15:22, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I'd prefer to delete the template and add the links to the list. We have Category:Lists of museums in the United States, but the list can provide additional organization, by separating the by-state lists (or other geographical lists; I think there are a few that aren't statewide) from the by-type lists.  And I don't see any point to slapping that rather bulky template on every list in lieu of merely a "see also" to this list and a category tag for the U.S. museum lists category.  Someone with more time than I have right now should look at comparable lists of museums in other countries to see if there's a good example that would show this list's potential.  postdlf (talk) 15:35, 15 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:NOTDIR Wikipedia is not a list.  @- Kosh  ► Talk to the Vorlons ► Markab -@ 16:34, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Transmogrify into a list article looks like the better solution to me, I tend to agree with postdlf's reasoning above. Qrsdogg (talk) 18:31, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Museums and libraries-related deletion discussions.  — —Tom Morris (talk) 19:27, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  — —Tom Morris (talk) 19:27, 15 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep, good discussions on talk page about why the Lists of Museums in the US were developed & formated the way they are currently, see here & here. Talk pages from other Lists of Museums refer to this talk page about formating, as seen here.  This article also preserves a lot of copyrighted info about the development of such lists from before this article was broken out into separate state articles.  Semper Fi! FieldMarine (talk) 21:53, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Revert waay back to this edit in early 2008, before the clumsy template was added. This works well as a "list of lists" and while the template is handy in some circumstances this article is presented better without the template.  Them From  Space  09:07, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Good idea - I support this recommendation. Semper Fi! FieldMarine (talk) 11:55, 18 July 2011 (UTC)


 * keep looks good to me Stuartyeates (talk) 23:45, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.