Talk:The Art of the Motorcycle
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Definite article: The Art of the Motorcycle[edit]
So after reviewing Wikipedia:Naming conventions (definite and indefinite articles at beginning of name) carefully, and checking all of the sources, I say with confidence that this thing was from the beginning, and in all secondary references, called "The Art of the Motorcycle," and nobody ever (or hardly ever) just said "Art of the Motorcycle." Hence, the page keeps the definite article by my reckoning. Sometimes I make mistakes. --Dbratland (talk) 04:34, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Historical context[edit]
In the Historical Context section I will correct a factual error, your mix-up of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and MOMA. (MOMA had nothing to do with Hoving, Tut, or the "Harlem On My Mind" exhibition.) I assume that the Met/MOMA confusion is an oversight. I also assume it is an oversight that the Kammen publication -- your source for these erroneous facts and virtually the entire section-- does not appear in References. I assume in good faith that your source is authoritative. However, even with these assumptions, your use of just a single source is inadequate to support your broad discussion of the political and economic environment for museum exhibition practices 1969-2006. I respectfully suggest this is a content fork. Further, the section has problems with POV and armwaving which are out of keeping with the rest of the article. The entire section should be revised or removed. The article will be stronger without it, in my opinion.Alawa (talk) 18:27, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks for catching those errors. I have additional support to strengthen that section; just need to circle back and finish getting them all in there.--Dbratland (talk) 20:08, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
Dubious New York exhibition date[edit]
I saw this exhibition during a visit to Manhattan between Saturday 17 August 1996 and Monday the 26th.
The article says it took place in 1998. Was there a repeated exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in 1998? If so, why is the original 1996 exhibition not mentioned? O'Dea (talk) 13:33, 20 July 2023 (UTC)