Talk:New England Regional Art Museum

Changing name

How do I change the title of this draft from the abbreviation "NERAM" to the full form "New England Regional Art Museum (NERAM)" Dirrigeree (talk) 01:42, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi Dirrigeree! To change the title you have to move the page; this page explains how to do that. By the way, I just ran into your question by chance. In the future, I suggest asking at the Teahouse, a help page for new users. Howicus (Did I mess up?) 01:46, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Also, wouldn't the full form of the name just be "New England Regional Art Museum"? —C.Fred (talk) 01:50, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, Howicus. I'm on a steep learning curve and will go to both the Moving a page page and the Teahouse. Yes the shorter form "New England Regional Art Museum" is correct but it is universally known by its acronym NERAM (as evidenced by the fact I called it this for the draft) so I want people searching on NERAM to find it, but there is a disambiguation issue with an Indian film called Neram, so including both full title and abbreviation should make it clear. If this is not the done thing I'm happy to learn and take out the acronym in brackets. Dirrigeree (talk) 02:05, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

@Dirrigeree: Actually, that's not quite the best way to do it. The name would just be "New England Regional Art Museum"; there are other navigational tricks for people who go to the Neram or NERAM page to find their way to the article. But, we can take care of that once the article is looking good. Would you still like me to move this to Draft:New England Regional Art Museum? —C.Fred (talk) 02:07, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Yes thank you. Very much appreciated. Dirrigeree (talk) 02:18, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Submitting draft and adding image

Dear Wikipedia editors; this article has been developed with the advice and assistance of several Wikipedia editors over many months and I believe is ready for Wikipedia. I have worked with a photographer who has put some photos of the Museum into Wikimedia Commons to allow me to use them in the article. I would like to add the image at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:I._New_England_Regional_Art_Museum_(NERAM).jpg

E. New England Regional Art Museum (NERAM)

to the article. It can be labelled <New England Regional Art Museum>. Can an editor please help with both adding the image and promoting the article if you agree it is ready. Thanks.--Dirrigeree (talk) 06:56, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi Dirrigeree. I'll answer your image question first. You can add the image to the file the same way you added it to this talk page. Just copy-and-paste [[File:E. New England Regional Art Museum (NERAM).jpg|thumb|E. New England Regional Art Museum (NERAM)]] into the edit window at the location you want the image to be displayed. If you want it displayed at the very top of the article, then just add the image to the line above the very first sentence of the article. If you want it displayed somewhere else, then add it there. Use the "Show preview" button to experiment and then click "Save changes" when you're satisfied. You can find out more details at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images.

Regarding moving the draft to the article namespace, you can do this yourself explained at WP:MOVE or you can submit the draft for review via WP:AFC. Be advised that there's nothing wrong with moving the article yourself, but once it's in the article namespace, it's pretty much there for anyone anywhere in the world to edit at anytime. The same is true for drafts, but most experienced editors will leave a draft as a courtesy to the person working on it unless there is a serous problem which requires immediate attention. Once it's added as an article, however, the kid gloves tend be dropped and changes/improvements are sometimes made at a rapid pace, sometimes even changes the article creator may not like. There is also a chance that another editor will add maintenance templates or even think the article should be deleted. Submitting the draft for review will at least give experienced AfC reviewers the chance to assess it and point out a problems they notice. These can then be fixed as suggested and other improvements can continue to be made. There's really no firm limit placed on the number of times a draft may be submitted, so even if it's rejected the first, it may be re-submitted as long as the reviewers concerns are addressed. There's no 100% guarantee that articles approved via AfC will never be deleted, but they do see to have a bit of a better chance of surviving than those which do pass through AfC. If you want to submit your draft, all you need to do is add {{subst:submit}} to the very tip of the page and then click "Save changes". Be advised that reviews do not take place immediately and you may have to wait a few days because their tends to be quite a backlog. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:48, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks very much Marchjuly, it looks like you have exactly answered my questions with info I hadn't figured out for myself from the overwhelming number of help pages related to Wikipedia. I'm really appreciative and I'll go and try to put it into effect. Dirrigeree (talk) 22:31, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks to all who have helped, I've followed Marchjuly's advice and have put it up for review. Dirrigeree (talk) 23:56, 9 February 2017 (UTC)