Talk:Big Stone County Museum

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The result was: promoted by SonOfYoutubers talk 04:39, 18 July 2025 (UTC)

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District No. 13 School

• ... that the Big Stone County Museum preserves an historic octagonal one-room schoolhouse (pictured)?

• Source: https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/31e15296-04ce-4938-bb00-1a263cd747da

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Nathan Frink

Created by Myotus (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 56 past nominations.

paul2520 💬 00:47, 13 May 2025 (UTC).

• Interesting museum, on fine sources, no copyvio obvious. The image is licensed and illustrates the hook perfectly. In the article:
  1. link to the town in the first sentence
  2. for me, you could use ref 2 just once after "including", instead of having it in every line of the list.
  3. You may want to use mode=packed in the gallery to show the pics better.
  4. Next time please make section headers in sentence case - I did it for 2 here.

  Thank you for the article! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:40, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment and suggestions, I have made the changes. Myotus (talk) 21:24, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

One more hook question: isn't it "a historic"? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:58, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: thanks for the feedback & edits. Apologies for the accidental rollback—it was a slip.

Technically 'a historic' is fine, so either way. = paul2520 💬 00:36, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

• Sourcing looks very thin for this article, for example, none of the three sources in the "Engebrecht Peterson Log Cabin" mention the cabin by name, if at all (two of them are just photos of an unnamed cabin). Gatoclass (talk) 09:31, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

  I'd imagine that the cabin got a name only when installed there, - no surprise that it isn't mentioned anywhere else. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:10, 30 June 2025 (UTC)

@Paul2520 and Myotus: The nomination is timing out in four days, so please respond to Gatoclass's concerns regarding sourcing. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:08, 8 July 2025 (UTC)

Narutolovehinata5, thanks for your ping! I had missed Gatoclass' comment. Gatoclass, I just updated the subsection in question. How do you think it looks now?

I think the sourcing looks good throughout. cc: Myotus = paul2520 💬 01:28, 8 July 2025 (UTC)

Looks Good! I added a new citation for the cabin. Still no reference to the name "Engebrecht Peterson" - sigh. Addtionally, it is good the reference to Bonanza was removed. Looking into it further it I think they meant Bonanza Grove. There is no Bonanza, Minnesota. I will have to talk to Big Stone County Museum AKA Big Stone County Historical Society Museum about that. Names can be pretty loose, and branding isn't as strict in some places. Myotus (talk) 03:04, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

I can approve it. I'd prefer an approval from the critic, though. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:28, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

• @Gatoclass: Just following up to eventually promote, as per above, do you approve this nomination now? SonOfYoutubers (talk) 16:03, 15 July 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, been very busy the last few days. Yes, it looks fine now. Gatoclass (talk) 01:21, 16 July 2025 (UTC)

Unique schoolhouse

The article refers to the "unique octagonal schoolhouse" without saying more. What makes it unique? There are other octagonal schoolhouses in the United States (Sinking Spring, Ohio, the English-speaking Quaker parts of the Delaware valley), so it is something else? JingleJim (talk) 10:30, 27 July 2025 (UTC)

The cited National Register of Historic Places document says, "The District 13 School is the only octagonal school known to be standing in Minnesota." So it's definitely unique in MN, though I could see a case for adding this context—or mentioning how few exist in general? = paul2520 💬 16:40, 29 July 2025 (UTC)