Talk:Honorary Medal for Merits toward Museum Collections

This page was proposed for deletion by Fram (talk · contribs) on 26 September 2008 with the comment:
Non notable minor award. While it exists now for almost two centuries, it doesn't appear as if the medal has ever received much attention, or that recipients of it get media attention because of the medal. The Dutch name "Erepenning voor Verdiensten jegens Openbare Verzamelingen" gets only twenty Google hits (excluding Wikipedia), and no Google News hits
It was contested by RMHED (talk · contribs) on 2008-10-01 with the comment:
notability would be better debated at an AfD

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deletion: not notable

disagree - I disagree with the "deletion: not notable" tag. Although this medal is rarely awarded, it is a pretty high and important honour in the Dutch honouring system, higher in ranking and precedence than the in the Netherlands very well-known "Resistance Memorial Cross" (Verzetsherdenkingskruis) and even higher in precedence than the international highly esteemed Dutch "Decoration of Merit" (Ereteken voor Verdienste). So, however not very well-known because seldom awarded, it is nonetheless an important award and therefore important enough to be mentioned at Wikepedia.

Deciding the existence and relevance of an article merely on basis how well-known it is, and not on basis of importance, is a form of fallacy, even more it is a very specific variant of "argumentum ad populum". Demophon (talk) 10:01, 27 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No one knows it, no one writes about it, but it is "important" anyway because it is placed in some hierarchy. An assistant-dean is higher in thehierarchy than a professor, but iften the professors will be more notable. The "argumentum ad populum" is not a fallacy if some variant of it is one of the crucial guidelines on Wikipedia: WP:NOTE. If this award has not received any attention and is virtually unknown, then its "importance" is irrelevant. 07:40, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Are these the same medal? [1] [2] [3]. RMHED (talk) 02:10, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Probably, and thanks for finding these. This at least shows some notability. I'll let this rest for now (I sometimes change my mind, so no promises that I'll never take this to AfD though ;-) ). Fram (talk) 07:10, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

File:Ribbon_bar_golden_Dutch_Museum_Medal.jpg may be deleted

I have tagged File:Ribbon_bar_golden_Dutch_Museum_Medal.jpg, which is in use in this article for deletion because it does not have a copyright tag. If a copyright tag is not added within seven days the image will be deleted. --Chris 00:33, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have added the copyright tag, so the image doesn't have to be deleted. Demophon (talk) 08:05, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]