Talk:Evacuation of the Louvre collection during World War II

How it came back

Any sources on that? Elinruby (talk) 12:49, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

Requested move 26 October 2024

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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Raladic (talk) 20:29, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

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Evacuation of the Louvre museum art collection during World War II → Evacuation of the Louvre collection during World War II – Simplification of the title. Alternative ideas welcome. Maybe even just "Evacuation of the Louvre during World War II"? SSR07 (talk) 15:48, 26 October 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Raladic (talk) 18:00, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

Pardon my naïveté, but is “art collection” a meaningful modifier in the current title? It is used throughout the article to describe what was evacuated. Were there other collections that were treated differently? That doesn’t seem to be the case but the title and article content raise that question. Assuming “art” collection is not important to the meaning, your suggestion seems reasonable. It’s much simpler. Keeping “collection” (but not “art”) clarifies that people were not evacuated. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 17:15, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

I don't think so. Art in the title's use of the word seems to encompass all arts: sculpture, paintings, etc. There's a photo in the article of the famous Winged Victory statue being hauled off, so it is definitely not exclusive to just the painting collection, which I think your question may have been hinting at? Separately, I agree with your assessment of the options: the word "collection" is valuable. SSR07 (talk) 21:24, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

That was my impression. Support per nom. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 06:08, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

• Support per nom. Our article on the museum is simply at Louvre and it's an art museum, so those two words are redundant. I might prefer "collections" plural, however, as that's how these things are usually described. A single museum has multiple collections. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:31, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

  Good catch! SSR07 (talk) 02:18, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

Note: WikiProject France/Paris and WikiProject Museums have been notified of this discussion. Raladic (talk) 18:00, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

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