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Hong Kong

The link should be like [[Hong Kong|Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China]], or else it's as funny as [[United Kingdom]] of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or [[United States]] of America. — Insta ntnood 16:35, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Inclusion criterion

Anyone considering adding a museum to this list should keep in mind the following from the Wikipedia:Lists (stand-alone lists) guideline:

"Ideally each entry on the list should have a Wikipedia article but this is not required if it is reasonable to expect an article could be forthcoming in the future."

To test the reasonableness of your expectations, (and prevent deletion from the list) you may want to create the article on the museum first and then add it to this list. UnitedStatesian 00:34, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The last sentence above is based on guidance & not policy. Please refrain from eliminating red-linked museums from this list without further discussion here because it can be counter-productive. Thanks! FieldMarine (talk) 06:21, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

inclusivity

It must be possible for now to add red-link musea - eg for the Netherlands, a country with literally over a thousand museums. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.136.53.46 (talk) 20:16, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Intro

The inclusion criteria for listing museums on this page as stated in the intro paragraph has been changed to one that is similar to that used on List of museums in the United States. Basically, it includes any museum other than ones existing only in cyberspace. This criteria was imported to this list because this list is a similiar list and the inclusion criteria achieved consensus by numerous editors, see Talk:List of museums in the United States. Thanks! FieldMarine (talk) 14:24, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I agree with your modifications, FieldMarine. This is a useful change. Tim Ross (talk) 21:41, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted Museums

Several "red-linked" museums were recently deleted from the Italy section. This deletion has been reverted until better explanation is provided as to why these specific museums were deleted. It is reasonable to expect that articles on these museums will be forthcoming & eliminating them from this list can be counter-productive. Thanks! FieldMarine (talk) 23:14, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I re-removed International Museum of the fly fishing Stanislao Kuckiewicz, per WP:DGFA, because that article was deleted. UnitedStatesian (talk) 02:01, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Museums about Tibet vs. in Tibet

There are numerous museums about Tibet that are not in Tibet. Just one of many is covered by Tibet Museum article which is currently given to a stub for a museum of that name in South Korea. Should the list of museums by country, list for each country the museums in it, or could it also have a section for museums outside it? doncram (talk) 02:06, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good question...I recommend only listing museums in the country they are located in & not by subject. By country is how the museums are currently listed & it makes sense to follow that system. Just a recommendation though. FieldMarine (talk) 03:13, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Request: List of museums by country, or beetter, delete all this page

1) This page is placed to the Category:Lists by country, very correctly, OK, following its real content.

1a) But thus its name should reflect this fact: So the rename request: List of museums by country

1b) Rather than lists of each museum one by one, please change this page to be a list of links to the country/city lists: I.e.: List of museums in France. ...however, such page could be argued as well.

1c) If usable, I would expect this page as main page for this Category:Museums by country. But I do not see it usable, see my arguments lower.

2) I am in doubts, why this page exists at all:

2a) This way, on this page, all the data here are doubled, as each country/city offers such list better way. The only result here is redundancy, thus inconsistency.

2b) Instead of bothering local national admins of the country pages to provide their data here, rather we could to push them to update their pages. I.e. there is no such list of museums for the Czech republic: neither on country page (nor on its outline)

...neither or there is no page for the Category:Museums in the Czech Republic. Well, this is not wrong (IMHO): One would not be able to keep such page up to date.

2c) Here, in organizing of the categories, one's effort would be more effective and helpful, IMHO, as content on these 'category pages' is updated automaticaly . So, why to try here to do the same manually?

Instead of wasting ours and theirs energy and time by redundat data on list pages, let's put an eye on systematization of existing pages into categories: comparing contents (chapter structure etc.) of the member pages would bring greate inspiration to the admins (wikipedist) of the local pages (by country, by city). And such effort is really needed as that cannot be done (compared) by bots, human's eye is needed here.

I request to delete all this page. Instead, let's provide inspirations to the local admins. Oashi (talk) 23:20, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. —Oashi (talk) 00:32, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Brazil

I believe that the Museu Nacional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro is the same as the National Museum of Brazil. Can anyone confirm this? Matthias5 (talk) 15:51, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Monterey Bay (talk) 05:43, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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