Talk:Museum docent

Fictitious Information

This article has contained fictitious information for nearly five months. I inserted it to see how long it would take for a dedicated Wikipedia user to delete a rather elaborate and fanciful piece of vandalism that went beyond tripling the population of African Elephants. The parts about Egypt and Greco-Roman docents are a total fabrication of my own imagination. This experiment has gone well past its useful lifespan, and it is now quite apparent that by using the correct tone and adding in some references that look reasonable in context, once can insert quite ludicrous information into a Wikipedia article. Rudimentary due diligence on the references would easily prove the false assertions in this article to be suspect. I realize that this is a low-importance stub article (which is why I ran my experiment on it), but the speed with which my attempts to remove the fake information were reverted is quite alarming. I am removing the fake information again. Please do not revert. 71.198.249.79 (talk) 04:08, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Merge with Docent entry

The characteristics in common with college and university docents, i.e., teaching, would better serve the description of this entry. As a factor in the Museum Project, it would help to elevate the significance of the occupation. In the US, the job is known as "docent" without a modifier; the occupation serves institutions other than museums but has in common the educational aspects. This entry sets a standard that would suggest an individual entry for every type of institutional docent and, by extension, every other specifiable occupation, causing entries to be lost among myriad subheads. Military rank entries, as a preferred example, not only encompass various subcategories, but also international variations. On its own, it might be difficult to flesh this beyond a stub without superfluous information. Zanski (talk) 10:41, 12 May 2013 (UTC)