Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Babungo Museum

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The result was keep. ✗plicit 02:03, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Babungo Museum

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No significant coverage to meet WP:ORG. LibStar (talk) 00:38, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I’ve added five refs. I don’t see a huge amount of in-depth coverage, but the museum has a scholarly catalogue and is referenced in many books. Mccapra (talk) 03:24, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Whilst new sources are welcome. I'm not sure some of them meet WP:SIGCOV:

- This one [1] is about the Babungo Mask. The word museum (musee in French), appears only on 1 line.

It tells us that this museum contains 3,000 objects. Mccapra (talk) 06:31, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

still not WP:SIGCOV. LibStar (talk) 06:35, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

- This one [2] I'm not sure it's indepth coverage, just single mentions of "Babungo" in a book.

It demonstrates that there is a catalogue. Mccapra (talk) 06:31, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

- This one [3] again not indepth, merely refers to 2 pictures of the museum.

Well it’s all we can see because of google book restrictions, but plainly the work covers material about the design and building of this museum. Mccapra (talk) 06:31, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Is the description of the design and building of this museum, somewhere in text in this book? LibStar (talk) 06:36, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

- this one [4], a 1 word mention of Babungo in a 11 page document. LibStar (talk) 04:28, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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 thus museum (and others) were established. Mccapra (talk) 06:31, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's not WP:SIGCOV as it does not specifically refer to this museum except once. If there was a Museums in Cameroon article, then yes. LibStar (talk) 06:38, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Cameroon-related deletion discussions. LibStar (talk) 04:53, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Museums and libraries-related deletion discussions. LibStar (talk) 04:55, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. It's sourced, there's no reason to doubt that anything the article says is true, and I can't think of any way in which removing this article will improve the lives of our readers or improve the way information is spread around the world (which is fundamentally what an encyclopaedia is about). This looks like a pointless deletion for deletion's sake. Elemimele (talk) 07:56, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia of notable articles. Using your reasoning, no articles would ever be deleted. LibStar (talk) 14:07, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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) 18:55, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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.