Talk:The Strong National Museum of Play

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Reversions

I made this edit, which reverted many of the changes made by User:Seven19museum. I will explain why here.

The new lead was not written in an encyclopedic tone. It was too laudatory. While the museum is worthy of such praise, superlatives such as those need to be referenced to reliable third-party sources.
I can't find any mention of "Lady Liberty" on the web site as a current exhibit, so I moved it back to "Former exhibits".
I restored the reference to the Smithsonian affiliation because the reference is still valid.

-- Powers ^T 18:24, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rebranding

I think the renaming of this page from Strong National Museum of Play to The Strong was made erroneously, due to local media reports and probably should be reverted. As reported here: MUSEUMS: Clarifying The Strong announcement, it states:

"The Strong is an umbrella term used to refer to all of the organization's various educational initiatives. The museum itself is NOT changing its name; it will continue to be known as the National Museum of Play, a name it took after a massive, multi-million-dollar expansion nearly five years ago." (emphasis mine) -- Jc3 (talk) 17:51, 29 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Answering the question will require clearly defining the scope of this article. Originally, of course, it started out as a simple article about the Strong Museum. But as the Museum added these other efforts, they were naturally added to the article. If we wish to split this article out into six separate articles (one on each of the five initiatives, and one on the umbrella organization), we can do so, but at least for the time being it seems to make sense to keep it all under one banner -- and that one banner is now "The Strong". In either case, we'd be well served to reorganize this article to make the five sub-entities distinct, probably each with its own section. Powers ^T 18:52, 29 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think the suggestion by Powers to break out The Strong and its Five Play Partners makes the most sense. Since this article appears to be mostly about the National Museum of Play, it would probably be easier to then create a page for The Strong that separately discusses the individual entities. In that spirit, I can begin to do that unless there's objection. Playstudy ^T 14:15, 18 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Name Change

This section seems to describe the National Museum of Play, which still exists as part of The Strong. Therefore, this name should be changed to reflect that and a separate page describing The Strong should follow. Playstudy ^T 14:15, 27 February 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Playstudy (talk • contribs) [reply]

According to the official site at http://www.toyhalloffame.org/, the name of the museum is The Strong National Museum of Play. Unless a formal "Move" consensus discussion concludes otherwise for some reason, WP:VERIFY and other policies and guidelines dictate that we use the verifiable name the subject gives itself. --Tenebrae (talk) 14:34, 30 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The history page there says "Strong National Museum of Play" without "the", so at least we can normalize per WP:THE. Dicklyon (talk) 04:11, 7 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]