Wikipedia:Guggenheim Museum

Welcome to Guggenheim GLAM page! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to art, museum history, architecture, and culture, as well as topics pertaining to the Guggenheim Museum Collections.

Aims

Create or improve existing biographies of notable artists, scholars, researchers, cultural figures, and organizations, especially those from under-represented populations.
Create or improve existing articles by describing important exhibitions presented by the Guggenheim using published reviews and critical descriptions as sources.
Create or improve existing articles of the Foundation's global initiatives.
Create or improve existing biographies of important figures in Guggenheim's history.
Add authoritative references, citations, and images to improve the quality of existing articles of all types.

Articles to create or augment

Before creating articles, please be sure to read the notability guideline, especially this section about Self-Promotion. Remember, if we don't have enough material to create a full article (several paragraphs), we may want to add new information to an existing article.

Artists

Update pages with new information, add links to digital archives (exact folder).

Foundation

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Museums

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum – Sections could be added about:
- 1. Collections: As soon as there are WP articles on the various collections shown in the NY museum, we can create a Collections section that briefly summarizes these, with appropriate cross references to the full articles. Alternatively, you and/or the Guggenheim/GLAM participants could write a section on collections now (it is essential that each paragraph be amply referenced) about the highlights of each collection shown in the NY museum, and the cross references to fuller articles can be added later once those articles are up.
- 1a. Improved and vetted collection highlights should be added. Expand mention of Founding Collection.
- 2. Exhibitions - A section (perhaps part of a "Collections and exhibitions" section) containing brief paragraphs about the most important and popular historical exhibitions at the NY museum.
- 3. Operations/number of visitors/comparisons with other similar museums?
- 4. Collaborations at the NY museum (we should be able to take much of this info from the Foundation's article)
- 5. Current projects that have been discussed in the press. Beware of WP:RECENTism and WP:CRYSTAL.
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao -- Could use a clearer description of the collection(s) and key exhibitions.
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (this needs an update re: status of the construction and any news about what will be in the collection)

People

Solomon R. Guggenheim
Peggy Guggenheim
Pegeen Vail Guggenheim – desperately needs referencing work
Hilla Rebay
Thomas M. Messer
James Johnson Sweeney
Thomas Krens
Nancy Spector – This article needs more references and content.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Karl Nierendorf
Justin K. Thannhauser
Mary Reynolds
Katherine Dreier
William Wesley Peters

Initiatives

Other

New Commons Images

This section contains images we have added to Wikimedia Commons.

Richard Armstrong
Proposed museum site in Helsinki
Entrance to the Sackler Center for Arts Education
Doris Salcedo
Wang Jianwei

Guggenheim Museum project on Wikimedia Commons, in association with Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Selections from the Guggenheim Collection:

External Links

Please access the shared Google spreadsheet. Confirm that each link directs to the correct page or adjust as necessary.

Best practices

Disclose your affiliation with the Guggenheim on your Wikipedia user page before editing. (The user page can be found in the top right corner of any Wikipedia page and can be edited like a regular article). Feel free to add the Guggenheim userbox to your user page using the following markup:
This user contributes to Guggenheim-related pages.
{{userbox|silver|light gray|[[Image:NYC - Guggenheim Museum.jpg|70px]]|This user contributes to [[Wikipedia:GLAM/Guggenheim_Museum|Guggenheim-related]] pages.}}
If you edit articles about the Guggenheim as an institution, other Wikipedia users may perceive a conflict of interest. Simple factual changes (e.g.: personnel updates or outdated statistics) may likely be made without raising eyebrows, but more substantive changes should be proposed with a critical eye towards a potential Conflict of Interest. Such articles should be edited by posting the proposed edit first to the appropriate discussion pages, and encouraging feedback from other Wikipedia editors.
Additions to articles must be verifiable. This means that independent media or academic secondary sources should be cited whenever possible. Where Guggenhiem-published literature or web pages represent original scholarship, they may be cited sparingly, but they must go along with an additional verifiable source to back up this information. See WP:SPS: "self-published media, such as ... personal websites ... are largely not acceptable as sources. ... Exercise caution when using [self-published] sources: if the information in question is really worth reporting, someone else [that is, an independent third party] will probably have done so."
When editing articles, always maintain the impartial voice. You are writing an encyclopedia, not speaking for the Guggenheim.
When adding a url for to a source, please also add the name of the author, the title of the article, the name of the publisher and the date of publication. Also please add specific page numbers, if available.
It is better to add information first to the relevant sub-article on the more specific topic, and then consider whether a summary version should also go in the more general article.

Resources

Possible Editing Strategies

Research and contribute to the content of Guggenheim-related Wikipedia articles. Ensure that existing articles are accurate and then improve with relevant new content.
Improve citations: first try to find books and open journals and databases; then subscription sources if necessary. Especially cite critical commentary, books and articles by respected art critics and academics as references before citing news sources.
Citations should include author name; title of article/book (linked to url, if online); name of publisher; date; page number, if available; and isbn# if a book.
Link to digitized content from Library & Archives.

Learning Tools

Principles of Wikipedia

Wikipedia: Policies and guidelines: “common sense model” “principles not rules”
Wikipedia: Etiquette; Editing by consensus
Wikipedia: Copyrights
Wikipedia: Identifying reliable sources (especially WP:Self-Published Sources)
Wikipedia: Core content policies:

Wikipedia:Neutral point of view---> Conflicts of Interest— If you think you have a COI, don’t create the article. Rather suggest that someone else should create it on a related talk page. You can work in a sandbox and then ask another editor, such as User:ssilvers, to review.
Wikipedia: Verifiability -- All assertions need references to WP:Reliable sources.
Wikipedia: Notability -- See also WP:PEOPLE and WP:ORG
Wikipedia: Original research

Expressing Affiliation - User pages, Project Pages, Talk Pages
Wikipedia: LINKFARM

Style

Participants

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