Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nevada Museum of Art

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The result of the debate was keep. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 04:51, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Nevada Museum of Art

Nominated as speedy, but clearly not a candidate for speedy deletion, so I moved it here. No vote from me--do we have a policy regarding museums? The institution clearly exists, and gets 13,600 Google hits (compare 500,000 for "Art Institute of Chicago", 166,000 for "Los Angeles County Museum of Art"). Meelar (talk) 05:58, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

• Keep The quality of the official web site and the design of the building should be reason enought. Reno only has 180,000 residents how many in LA and Chicago? Does using Google hits mean that small towns will never get something like a museum on wikipedia? Vegaswikian 06:21, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Hey, I'm asking you guys. ;) I only moved the thing from speedy deletion. Meelar (talk) 06:53, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
    • OK. In looking at that article I searched on the AAM and found a couple of other wikipedia entries that had that. Those articles are not much different in size to the NMA. So, if NMA goes then you could make the same case for a lot of other museums. Vegaswikian 07:07, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
      • Personally I thought the over-widgeted, overdesigned, glitzy web page was worth nominating for web pages that suck. I actually had trouble finding things on it. It uses the "mystery meat" technique of not showing what your choices are until you choose them. But, hey, I won't hold that against it. Dpbsmith (talk) 20:14, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Notable museam. Klonimus 07:03, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, seems like it's a notable enough museum. --bainer 07:37, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, practically all full-size museums, colosseums, and arboretums are notable/interesting enough for an unlimited encyclopedia. Kappa 08:25, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. It being "the only American Association of Museums (AAM) accredited Art Museum in the state of Nevada." makes it notable in my book. Mgm|^(talk) 08:38, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - it seems important Saopaulo1 09:07, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. N-Man^talk 15:31, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I don't think I've ever voted keep before. It feels weird.--Bucephalus 16:08, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Feels good, don't it?  :) Keep current article. Original listing was little more than link spam. - Lucky 6.9 16:28, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: Vegaswikian has already started expanding this article. Can this be removed from VfD? - Lucky 6.9 18:07, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Looks like a substantial not-so-terribly-little museum. And unlike some other things I won't mention, art museums are very different from each other. Peeking at the website... oh, I'm so tempted to say something snarky about Maxfield Parrish but in fact if I were there I'd sorta like to see that exhibit. And an exhibit on pinhole photography sounds interesting. I am quite sure I wouldn't find exhibits on either of those at the Peabody-Essex Museum in Salem, nor the Elvehjem Museum of Art in Madison. Dpbsmith (talk) 20:11, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I see no reason to delete this valid museum. RickK 05:00, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

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