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MoMA Edits

Hi Per Exemplum! Thanks for your work to help clean up the article for the Museum of Modern Art; there's a lot of work to be done there, and it's going to be a long road to get it where it needs to be.

I just wanted to flag that you should be a bit more detailed in your edit summaries if you plan to remove substantive information from the article. Your edit earlier today - edit summary: "lead edits for clarity" - really went a bit further than simply editing for clarity. You removed at least one pretty fundamental claim (the perceived notability/influence of the museum), and adjusted the phrasing on another pretty big claim (you removed "substantially" from the sentence "In recent decades, MoMA has substantially expanded its collection..."). I don't see any changes or challenges to the citations here, so I'm not sure why you removed those claims; because your edit summary is not clear about the range of changes you're making (and, candidly, I would say these edits don't actually make the lead much clearer), there's no way to know what the intent was behind the removal of those phrases.

I'm not arguing strongly that the phrasing should be added back into the article, I just wanted you to be aware that more detailed edit summaries, especially on high-profile articles like this, are usually appropriate when making such big changes to the most-read portion of an article. Happy to discuss further. Thanks for your time! 19h00s (talk) 15:56, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

@19h00s Thanks for your post and for being so diligent. You're absolutely right, of course.

Frankly, the reason behind such a short edit description was driven by the fact that I was trying to remove some peacock language of my own making (you will notice that the expansion of the entire lead comes from my previous edits) and felt like that would be sufficient. There were several aspects that I have been returning to and I have grown somewhat frustrated by being unable to strike the right balance between characterizing the museum's central role in contributing to the traditional teleological modernist narrative vis-a-vis the controversies of its decades-long Eurocentrism.

That being said, it is certainly good practice to always include detailed descriptions for any substantive edits, so I appreciate your friendly reminder. :) Per Exemplum 17:12, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

Totally understand the goal here, and I figured striking that balance was what you were aiming for, just wanted to be totally sure; this article has had quite a history of, if not full on edit wars, then some harsh disagreements about the tone and claims in the article, as you can imagine lol. And honestly I did not notice that you had originally added that language, so that's my fault for not doing one extra click! Thanks again for your work here :) 19h00s (talk) 17:23, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

Articles for Creation backlog drive

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Women in Green's 9th Edit-a-thon

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WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Editathon event in October 2025!

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