Talk:Victoria and Albert Museum

message: Hi,
I'm afraid this article is so badly written, copyvio, and structurally a disaster.
This needs a complete overhaul.
Any suggestions for improvement, before I rip it apart and start again?
Cheers
Muj
--ImperialCollegeGrad 21:58, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd go ahead. You might look at User talk:VAwebteam although i don't think they've edited the article itself.  There is no "Collections of.." Category either.   Johnbod 22:35, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Way Below Par (worse than a Triple Bogey) 

message: This article is a disaster, am working on it now.
It's a good example of how not to let people get carried away with adding anything and over emphasising.
I will be pursueing a program of mass prose killing and reduction therapy on this article.
Any contributions?
:ImperialCollegeGrad 19:24, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Start 

message: The V&A has signed up to the Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Art event being planned for February 2009. If you want to help, please sign up on the page! AndrewRT(Talk) 00:24, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Details: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art/V&A rules.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  18:43, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

text: The photographs from this event are now on Commons, ready to be used! See :commons:Category:Wikipedia Loves Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Mike Peel (talk) 15:40, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Also ready to be categorized on Commons! It's great to see such detailed info added to them though. Johnbod (talk) 16:18, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Loves Art 

message: Would it make sense for the overviews of each of the separate collections of the Museum to be in separate articles so that the main article isn't quite so long? This seems quite sensible and would resolve the issue of the article being over length. Mabalu (talk) 02:13, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: For example, I see that the Cast Courts have their own page here: Cast Courts (Victoria and Albert Museum) Mabalu (talk) 02:26, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article length 

message: I have just looked into the history of this article in sone detail. 
* The badly structured sentences mostly date from the time of a very industrious nameless editor back in 2006.   
* Another editor tweaked the expression and removed superfluous capitals but left the sentence construction exactly as it was. 
*Since 2006, the article has been edited by a number of people who have worked over format, links etc.  
*People have added to the section on collecting areas. 
*In the last 12 months, a section on musical instruments was added. 
*The article was tweaked before putting up for GA, but no-one did any serious revision.  
This article could and ought to be a GA article.   But it's going to need serious editing.   By "serious", I don't mean chopping chunks out of it.  I mean reading what is written in a serious and critical manner. 
This is harder work than simply cruising around removing superfluous links, formatting the numbers and tweaking the dashes. It means taking an academic approach to it.  
Amandajm (talk) 23:48, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
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message: Do we have to book for Thursday 24th museum? 86.137.139.24 (talk) 13:20, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Try looking at the museum website, this is an encyclopaedia, not a tourist guide. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 16:09, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Booking 

message: Gosh this is a long article. Surely we should move 'Collections' to a separate page? Similarly, the Gallery section could move into the Collections page, with each image in its respective section, for example Paintings or Sculptures.  
Sadgrove (talk) 20:34, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article length 

message: I'm adding in a small section to point towards the National Art Library, which is a department of the museum. I've also worked with another editor to do some edits in the National Art Library page, so it is more informative than it used to be! AGuidry57 (talk) 18:02, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Library