Talk:Toowong Municipal Library Building

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Lack of info on current status

Although this might be the name given in the heritage listing, there is indeed a Toowong Library which continues to function today at a different address. I see, for example, from here that:

"The library was threatened for closure in 1982 following the opening of a new municipal library at Indooroopilly in 1981. The Toowong Library did in fact close but local residents’ action saw it re-opened in 1983. Alterations were made to the building in 1983 when one of the rooms on the lower floor was acquired for use by the local councillor as a ward office, until 2005. Despite a campaign by local residents to prevent the closure of the library and redevelopment of the library and adjoining swimming pool site, the library was moved to Toowong Village shopping centre in March 2001, and the original building, which is protected by Heritage listing, is now business premises."

Should these details not be included in the article, together with details of the new address, etc.? In the interim, I have reduced the WikiProject status to Class Start.--Ipigott (talk) 10:49, 27 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

These articles are being ported across, en masse, from the Queensland Heritage Register. Quite a number of these listings haven't been updated since their initial listing, which may be up to ten or fifteen years, and I've found a number that are much more out of date than this library article. The articles which haven't had a thorough review (which often necessitates researching their current status) are in the hidden category Category:Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register (please review) so people can keep track of them; I've been trying here and there but I did my back in and can't sit up for too long which is cramping my efforts - would be lovely to see some other people jump in. The Drover's Wife (talk) 12:04, 27 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for these explanations. While I do of course welcome the inclusion of articles from the Queensland Heritage Register in Wikipedia, I think it is important to ensure that they are not liable to mislead. Toowong is an important area of Brisbane. People looking for information about the local library are likely to find this article and go to the wrong address. It would not be difficult for the creator of the article to check such detals out before completing the article. In my opinion, it would be far better to slow down a bit and make sure essential details are included where necessary. Maybe this and other articles liable to mislead should be tagged with a warning message if they are to be posted unrevised?--Ipigott (talk) 14:41, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think it would place a lot of work on Kerry to expect her to update all of these articles in the process of transferring them. She's already got a lot of work on her plate with getting these across on her own, and I feel like this should be a job for other editors like us. The article already refer to the library as "the former Toowong Municipal Library" in the text, though it originally did in the title, which was lost in the transfer to Wikipedia naming conventions. Might I suggest a compromise would be to just make sure the "former" designation gets mentioned in lede sections? @Kerry Raymond:The Drover's Wife (talk) 15:16, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]