Talk:Imperial War Museum

message: Hi there. Anyone who's been following this article will know I've made a lot of changes to it. In the interests of transparency, I am a curator at the IWM. I have endeavoured to abide by WP:V, WP:NPOV and WP:NOR, and to stick to facts sourced from WP:RS. I have declared my interest also at WP:COIN. Any editor who thinks my edits are inappropriate is invited to discuss them here. Thanks for reading. IxK85 (talk) 21:31, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Declaring my interest 

message: Going to add links to aid future verification. Most of the journal articles are accessible via JSTOR, and extracts from The Times can be accessed through the Times Digital Archive at . Subscription is required for both services but many UK public libraries offer remote access.IxK85 (talk) 12:42, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Verification of sources 

message: About the section recently added, I think the bus route information is probably more useful integrated into the infobox where there is already information on the train and underground connections. Also the night bus routes aren't really relevant; the museum is closed for the night before the first night buses pass. --IxK85 (talk) 10:39, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transport connections section 

message: Propose a minor change of structure, to incorporate most of the second paragraph of the Collections section into the London building section, as most of that Collections paragraph is discussing the layout and content of the building. --IxK85 (talk) 12:25, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restructure - London building/Collections 

message: Propose to expand the 'Directors' section into a section on Governance, to include the museum's Board of Trustees and its composition.--IxK85 (talk) 10:41, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Governance 

message: Although this article already has Good Article status, there are a number of changes I'd like to make. For instance, the History section ought to at least mention the acquisition of each branch as a part of the museum's history; at present the article probably overemphasises the redevelopments of the Southwark building. The individual branch sections might benefit from being rewritten, as the branch articles have improved substantially since the main IWM article was last revised. Also, the paragraph on the park is not directly relevant to the museum, and perhaps might be better placed in the Building section (renamed to something like 'Imperial War Museum London: Building and surroundings'. Discussion always welcome. -IxK85 (talk) 09:42, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Will go ahead and make the changes above in three edits. --IxK85 (talk) 13:00, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Emphasis - history, branches, building/surroundings 

message: A recent edit has changed the visitor statistics from the official DCMS figures to newspaper figures, and has removed the total visits to all branches. Given that this page is about the IWM as a whole, and not just IWM London, I propose to revert to the previous stats and reference.--IxK85 (talk) 08:44, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The source referenced has since changed, and as the figures appear reliable, I've readded the total visitor figure. Propose to alter the link to the ranking, however, to make clear that it refers to IWM London.--IxK85 (talk) 17:23, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attendance figures 

message: This article is now rather outdated as it has the title Imperial War Museum and covers both the larger network and the main museum in Southwark. Although both had the same name until 2011, as the article itself notes the larger network has since been renamed Imperial War Museums and the main museum is now officially Imperial War Museum London. Given that the other branches have their own articles there should really be one for IWM London and another for the larger network – cf. Tate Britain and Tate, both of which were formerly called the Tate Gallery.
How should this be done? Retitle this page in the plural and create a new Imperial War Museum London article? Or vice versa – keep Imperial War Museum as the unofficial but familiar name for the main building and move the content on the organisation as a whole to a new article called Imperial War Museums? I would be inclined to go for the former as that means the least change to the article, but it does raise the question of where Imperial War Museum would redirect. Any thoughts? Ham 14:46, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Move this to Imperial War Museum London and leave Imperial War Museum as a redirect to this article, hatnote on the top of this article eg  But flag your thoughts up at the WP:Milhist project for more ideas and opinion. GraemeLeggett (talk) 15:58, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd be inclined to move this page to Imperial War Museums, and redirect Imperial War Museum to it. I don't think there's actually a need to create a separate 'IWM London' article. The other branches (HMS Belfast, Cabinet War Rooms, IWM Duxford, IWM North) all have discrete starting points, their own dates of establishment and their own site histories. 'IWM London' by contrast, was, as a name, simply a renaming of a site that had been the Imperial War Museum since 1936, when other sites became IWM Duxford or IWM North. I think the article makes this sufficiently clear as it stands. IxK85 (talk) 16:49, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title and scope of this article 

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message: Should this page be moved to 'Imperial War Museums' to reflect the organisation's own usage on its website and the first words of the WP article? JezGrove (talk) 22:25, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. Headhitter (talk) 19:24, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page move? 

message: Why does this article simultaneously cover the Imperial War Museum in London and the IWM group? Shouldn't they be separate articles? --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 10:50, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. Headhitter (talk) 19:26, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Scope