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WikiProject Libraries

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Goals and scope

Goals

• Coordinate maintenance of library-related content
• Develop and discuss proposals for improvements to Wikimedia (especially literature-related sites) based on library experience
• Assist at the Wikipedia Reference Desk
• Assist with categorization

Scope

This WikiProject covers all areas of library and information science, including (but not limited to):

• Libraries, librarians, and librarianship in all its aspects (historical, fictional, ancient to contemporary and beyond!).
• All areas of information science, including information organization, retrieval, search, access, and manipulation (sometimes overlapping with WikiProject Computer Science).
• Archives, archivists, and archival science.
• Preservation and conservation of recorded information (sometimes overlapping with WikiProject Museums).

To do

Article alerts and assessments

Automatically generated list of new articles with Library keywords

Article alerts

Did you know

• 03 May 2024 – Anne Griffiths (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Mystery Merrivale (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Apr 2024 – John Gould Stephenson (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Generalissima (t · c); see discussion

Templates for discussion

• 28 Apr 2024 – Template:MusicBrainz wiki (talk · edit · hist) TfDed by Pppery (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Good article nominees

• 02 May 2024 – Morgan Library & Museum (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Epicgenius (t · c); start discussion
• 21 Apr 2024 – John Silva Meehan (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Generalissima (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 26 Mar 2024 – Information explosion (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Information overload by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Mar 2024 – Terrebonne Parish Library System (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana by Eddie891 (t · c); see discussion
• 11 Sep 2023 – List of Carnegie libraries in Philadelphia (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to List of Carnegie libraries in Pennsylvania by SWinxy (t · c); see discussion
• 24 May 2023 – Wilson's model of information behavior (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to information behavior by Kku (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 16 Jun 2023 – Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Relinus (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Dec 2020 – Public libraries in North America (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by M2545 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 03 May 2024 – Draft:Thoth Open Metadata (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Amandasramalho (t · c)
• 01 May 2024 – Draft:Main Library (Broward County, Florida) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by SolUrbanismus (t · c)
• 28 Apr 2024 – Draft:Menaul Historical Library of the Southwest (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Aromero58 (t · c)
• 05 Apr 2024 – Draft:Collection Development and Evaluation Section (CODES) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by JBW (t · c)
• undated – Draft:Carol Burns (librarian) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC

Museums and libraries AfDs

Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Cultural Complex And Museum

Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Cultural Complex And Museum (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)

The press coverage received lacked depth or significance, failing to meet the WP:GNG. I don't see it passing WP:ORG either —Saqib (talk | contribs) 14:48, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pakistan-related deletion discussions. —Saqib (talk | contribs) 14:48, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Museums and libraries-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 15:35, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Cavarrone 19:54, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Holderness museums

Holderness museums (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Unclear what this article is even about. Mentions one small archive, without a claim to notability, shared across the 3 museums that aren't otherwise tied together. -- D'n'B-t -- 06:45, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Museums and libraries, History, and United Kingdom. -- D'n'B-t -- 06:45, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
• Comment. This BBC reference explains the oral history project. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 06:57, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

  Interesting coincidence that the project officer's name in that link is so similar the article creator. -- D'n'B-t -- 17:39, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 10:47, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
• Delete. Its a project or scheme to record oral histories. Its not encyclopaedic. I searched and looked for sources but there's nothing I can find. Desertarun (talk) 09:32, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 14:28, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

• Redirect and selectively merge into Hornsea Museum, or vice versa. They are one and the same registered charity. Bearian (talk) 18:35, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 19:39, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Final relisting.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:12, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Museums and libraries Proposed Deletions

Article assessments

Display assessment table

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Article identification and assessment

• Identify, assess, and tag the talk pages of relevant articles using the {{WikiProject Libraries}} banner

• Provide assessment for unassessed articles for both quality and importance.

• Provide assessment for Libraries articles of unknown importance

Writing new articles

• Develop articles on Requested articles: Library science
• Develop articles on List of basic library and information science topics.
• See also content at LISWiki

Group collaboration

Collaborate for two months on a single article to develop it up to Featured Article status!

• Readers'_advisory - November/December 2009

Fact checking and adding sources

• See the Fact and reference check project.
• Add links to library special or digital collections to appropriate articles.
  • See Tacoma Narrows Bridge for an example.
  • See the presentation Using Wikipedia to Extend Digital Collections.

See also

See also all subpages of WikiProject Libraries.

Cleanup

See the cleanup listing generated by CleanupWorklistBot.

Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Bibliographies
• WikiProject Biography/Science and academia - Science & academia biographies
• WikiProject History of Science
• WikiProject Academic Journals
• WikiProject Digital Preservation
• WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles - host of the List of missing journals
• WikiProject Reference works

Additional resources

• Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check
• Category:Wikipedia resources for researchers
• Category:Wikipedian librarians
• German Wikipedia: Library Reference Service
• COinS in Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:ISBN
• GLAM
• The Wikipedia Library
• {{Authority control}}

Projects of the Wikimedia Foundation

• b:Introduction to Library and Information Science by Richard E. Rubin
• m:Wikicat
• v:Learning Project

External links

• Libweb - Library WWW Servers