Talk:Te Papa

message: I'm wondering if there's enough content here to split off a controversy section.  (I might just do this anyway, come to think of it, to see how it goes.)  It wouldn't seem complete without some notes about the Virgin In a Condom controversy a few years ago, which had people arguing very noisily about the museum's principles.  Would anyone be keen on perhaps researching and writing a bit about this, even if it's just a paragraph?  I wasn't really taking enough notice of things at the time to be able to back myself to do it accurately without lots of work.  Izogi 06:33, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think its much better if the controversies are dealt with in the body of the article, rather than being split off into a separate section. I think the article should be primarily along historic lines, with a section on the site including the earthquake risk and strengthening, the Museum Hotel de Wheels and the opening, and then an "Exhibits and Conferences" section including the controversies over individual exhibits or meetings. There should be some praise mixed in - surely Te Papa has achieved some firsts for New Zealand.-gadfium 09:11, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  How about a controversy section? 

message: The article states that the museum was opened in 1998 - but ignores its previous history completely which goes back over a century (and was once known as the Doominion Museum). Sabine's Sunbird  talk 23:56, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: We need more on the building itself. It is weird looking. Who designed it?
Matt (talk) 09:18, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I see no reason why the article shouldn't mention both the architects and the builders. I've changed the references to go to pages that actually mention these companies involvement in Te Papa rather than to their home pages.-gadfium 20:34, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

text: Ok, but there should rather be an article about Jasmax and Fletcher on Wikipedia. Tofail (talk) 13:40, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The building 

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message: Several things:
# It doesn't seem to be linguistically plausible that Te Papa means 'Our Place' yet Te Papa Tongarewa translates literally to 'Container of Treasures'.
# The claim "A fuller interpretation is ‘our container of treasured things and people that spring from mother earth here in New Zealand’." appears to be either original research, or a non-credible aggrandizing claim copy-pasted from marketing materials.  It's not linguistically plausible that a phrase that short encodes that much detail.
# The exact string "Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa" looks to be a mishmash, both an English name and a non-English one run together, like "Mexico City Ciudad México".  We do not title articles this way, but use the WP:COMMONNAME in English sources by default (this is usually the WP:USEENGLISH name, but there are exceptions, and the previous RM suggests this probably is one; "officialese" names in English like "Museum of New Zealand" are not always the most common name).  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  23:35, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mistranslation and other name issues? 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: (non-admin closure) MOVED to Te Papa. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 20:58, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa →  – Move to common name, reverting an erroneous move from 2006. — HTGS (talk) 22:53, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

text: This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 12:56, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

text: , I also find that argument about Google hits a weird one. Even if you assume that “Te Papa” minus “museum of New Zealand” included nothing of the museum, you could surely subtract that number from “Te Papa” results to get 1.3m hits, which is still more than the number of results for the full name. Anyway, hopefully we get it right this time. — HTGS (talk) 21:00, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 17 September 2021 

message: I don't understand why closing the Museum for two days for cleaning following a visitor attending with COVID-19 would be a controversy. Such was standard practice at the time and there is certainly no indication of it being controversial in the linked NZ Herald article. In fact, I query the need to even mention it in this article. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 04:40, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Feel free to remove it.-gadfium 05:10, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  COVID-19 under Controversies?