Template:Did you know nominations/Montana State University Library
- The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:38, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
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Montana State University Library edit
- ... that Montana State University Library, established in 1894, is home to the 7500-volume Trout and Salmonids Collection of books, periodicals, grey literature with ephemera, and research materials on trout and fly fishing?
- Reviewed: John Lansdale, Jr.
Created by McMormor (talk), Clark-jason (talk). Nominated by Mike Cline (talk) at 13:20, 6 September 2013 (UTC).
Article is new enough, long enough, adequately referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. However, DYK rules call for at least one citation per paragraph; I've tagged statements that need citations. Also, the article is a bit unwieldy, reading more like a list in the middle. Is there any way you can turn more of the lists into prose? Yoninah (talk) 19:34, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
- Hi Yoninah: I got your message about making some changes to the Montana State University Library article. The DYK nomination process and responsibilities are new to me but I think I got all the citations plus I did some editing to try and write some of the "list" sections into a more prose style. Please let me know if you want more changes. And please let me know if I'm not communicating back in the right place. I'm guessing our talk pages are the correct place. Thanks for all your help and support, McMormor (talk) 17:35, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
- The page looks much better, thanks. I just don't understand what's going on in the Services section. It seems like a repository of unconnected and possibly irrelevant facts. It seems to me that most of this information could be moved to the end of the History section. Regarding the 2012 statistics: Please note that this page will be on Wikipedia for many years, in which case the 2012 figures will become obsolete. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 18:02, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
- I got the "services" heading layout idea from the Stanford University Library article. Actually, I'm not finding any general over-all or generic section heading layouts for academic/university libraries. I changed the section heading to "general information" and reworded the subsection lists, and then moved it below the "collections" section. I cited the fiscal year 2012 because budgetary expenses do change from year to year and this way, if the article is read in future years and the content hasn't been updated, it mentions the date (year 2012) the data was pulled and cites to the original source. McMormor (talk) 16:32, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your reorganization work on the page. As you can see, I moved things around some more and added specific rather than general subheads. I also removed the embedded websites in the Memberships section, linked them to Wikipedia pages, and cited only those that mention Montana State University as a member. IMO this nomination is ready to go. Offline hook refs AGF. Good to go. Yoninah (talk) 21:19, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
