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Ok, now that we've signed up, what can we do to start fostering a relationship between the all the arts on Wikipedia? What can we do to improve articles? Should we all introduce ourselves first? [[User:Ganymead|''*Exeunt*'' Ganymead]] | [[User talk:Ganymead|Dialogue?]] 22:04, 23 April 2006 (UTC) |
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:BTW, who is maintaining the portal? [[User:Ganymead|''*Exeunt*'' Ganymead]] | [[User talk:Ganymead|Dialogue?]] 22:05, 23 April 2006 (UTC) |
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== Signups open for [[WP:The Core Contest|The Core Contest]] == |
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[[WP:The Core Contest|The Core Contest]]—Wikipedia's most exciting contest—will take place this year from April 15 to May 31. The goal: to improve [[WP:vital|vital]] or other core articles, with a focus on those in the worst state of disrepair. Editing can be done individually, but in the past groups have also successfully competed. There is £300 of prize money divided among editors who provide the "best additive encyclopedic value". '''[[Wikipedia:The Core Contest/Entries|Signups are open now]]'''. Cheers from the judges, [[User:Femke|Femke]], [[User:Casliber|Casliber]], [[User:Aza24|Aza24]]. |
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* I mostly work on art articles, and as [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Visual arts]] shows no signs of life I thought setting this up might be a good idea. I was also disappointed with the lack of support for some articles in COTW and AID which I thought might benefit from the attention of an arts project. As far as I can see, nobody's maintaining the portal regularly, other than [[User:Cyberjunkie|Cyberjunkie]] occasionally changing the format. [[User:Ham|H<small>AM</small>]] [[Image:Icons-flag-wales.png]] 22:26, 23 April 2006 (UTC) |
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::Greetings! Well, I'm a theatre person and spend much of time working on articles relating to it. I also help maintain [[Portal:Theatre]] and I created [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre|WikiProject Theatre]] and [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Elizabethan theatre|WikiProject Elizabethan theatre]]. Well, I just got back from a walk and while walking I thought about some things this Project might work on. Here are some ideas: |
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*First I think we need to redo the Project page. I jazzed up the page for WikiProject Theatre, just to make it more visually appealing; we're artists aren't we? In addition, we need to have a scope and mission statement as well as ways to help the project. |
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*Since we encompass such a large area, I think trying to work on individual articles might be difficult. Perhaps the purpose could be to enhance co-operation between projects and portals, certainly maintenance of all arts related portals, and perhaps an arts article collaboration (only if there is enough interest in this Project). |
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*One project this group might consider should be sorting out arts related catagories. Certainly working on a general arrangement of them and then working downwards. Being that they are so related, perhaps creating a model category for arts related fields and then working to bring other arts related categories in line with that. |
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::Just some ideas in stream-of-conciousness order. On the re-design of the project page, I have very little time now, but I may be able to tackle it shortly and redesign it if you like. [[User:Ganymead|''*Exeunt*'' Ganymead]] | [[User talk:Ganymead|Dialogue?]] 23:38, 23 April 2006 (UTC) |
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:::Two more thoughts. Perhaps we might send some spies over to WikiProject Science and find out what they're doing to create attention. We also might consider an arts related assessment of arts coverage as a whole. Taken it piece by piece and looking at how the arts of covered. Of course we need people in all the arts disciplines to really be able to do this well. [[User:Ganymead|''*Exeunt*'' Ganymead]] | [[User talk:Ganymead|Dialogue?]] 23:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC) |
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== Requested move at [[Talk:Rococo Revival]] == |
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* Yes, yes, absolutely yes to all of the above. I must confess that other than an arts COTW (a long way down the line from now, you're right) and looking after the portal I had only the haziest idea of how this project could actually improve individual articles, but your category suggestion sounds like a good place to start – an orderly list of categories on the portal ''à la'' Portal:Science will look impressive. In fact, the whole idea of this project as I envisaged it was of stealing all of the Science project's best ideas, so I'm glad you caught on to that! |
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[[File:Information.svg|30px|left]] There is a requested move discussion at [[Talk:Rococo Revival#Requested move 21 September 2024]] that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. — [[User:Amakuru|Amakuru]] ([[User talk:Amakuru|talk]]) 12:29, 21 September 2024 (UTC) |
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:The only new suggestion I have to add is that we perhaps formulate a sort of standard "Come and join the Arts Portal!" message and paste it on all of the related project/portal talk pages. Granted, some of them are a bit dead, but surely loads of people who joined and then forgot all about them still have those pages on their watchlists. [[User:Ham|H<small>AM</small>]] [[Image:Icons-flag-wales.png]] 16:59, 24 April 2006 (UTC) |
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== Requested move at [[Talk:Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?)]] == |
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[[File:Information.svg|30px|left]] There is a requested move discussion at [[Talk:Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?)#Requested move 23 September 2024]] that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. — [[User:BarrelProof|BarrelProof]] ([[User talk:BarrelProof|talk]]) 16:37, 30 September 2024 (UTC) |
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== Discussion of relationship between [[The arts]], [[Art]] and [[Visual arts]] == |
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:So, how should categorization go? Has a categorization scheme already been invented by historians or sociologists to categorize the arts and artistic endeavor? I'm going to search for one, but if anyone knows of a book or web site that discusses such a scheme, let us know! |
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:--<font style="color: red">[[User:Rainmonger|Ton]]</font><font style="color: green">[[WP:ESP|y]]</font><font style="color: blue; font-size: 7pt; position: relative; top: +7px">(blah blah blah)</font><span style="position: relative; left: -60px"><font style="color: gray; font-size: 7pt; position: relative; top: -7px">(look what I can do!)</font> 15:15, 25 April 2006 (UTC) |
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There is a discussion on the relationship between The arts, Art and Visual arts at [[Talk:Art#Art vs The arts vs Visual arts merges]] that may interest members of this WikiProject. [[User:Rollinginhisgrave|Rollinginhisgrave]] ([[User talk:Rollinginhisgrave|talk]]) 13:24, 10 October 2024 (UTC) |
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::As I see it, certain categories can be applied to every art category, such as "Theatre by country", "Dance by country", "Visual arts by country", "Literature by country" and so forth. The same could go for categorizing artistic movements, artists, etc. The purpose of the categorization would be to structure these in a consistant manner. In addition, there are some issues that might be best addressed here (i.e. an issue I have still yet to resolve in terms of theatre categories: should theatre be classified by country or by culture? This also affects the naming of the category ("Theatre in Italy" vs. "Italian theatre")). This is certainly a decision that would apply to all arts categories. Another issue arises with the use of British vs. English and then further what about Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish? What about artists, etc. under colonial rule? (i.e. Indians under British rule? classified as British, Indian or both?) Note, however, that I have noted and appreciated your sarcasm. :-) Cheers! [[User:Ganymead|''*Exeunt*'' Ganymead]] | [[User talk:Ganymead|Dialogue?]] 16:39, 25 April 2006 (UTC) |
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== Featured list candidate == |
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:Tony, I had a bash at what you might call a "categorization scheme" on [[Portal:Arts/Categories]]. I put theatre, music etc. under "Performing arts" and architecture, painting etc. under "Visual arts" (no surpises there). Literature and poetry I decided to class as "[[Liberal arts]]", although the term is a bit problematic as in the classical sense it would mean grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy. And of course you could argue the case for poetry being one of the "performing arts". This scheme hasn't actually been applied to the categories yet – I'll wait for some feedback from the project as to whether everything's in the right place before I go ahead with the changes. [[User:Ham|H<small>AM</small>]] [[Image:Icons-flag-wales.png]] 18:28, 27 April 2006 (UTC) |
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'''[[List of artwork at the United States Capitol complex]]''' has been nominated as a {{#switch: FLC | FAC = [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates|featured article candidate]] | FLC = [[Wikipedia:Featured list candidates|featured list candidate]] | FPC = [[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates|featured picture candidate]] }}; the nomination can be found '''[[{{#switch: FLC | FAC = Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/List of artwork at the United States Capitol complex/archive1 | FLC = Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of artwork at the United States Capitol complex/archive1 | FPC = Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/{{{3}}} }}|here]]'''. Since the {{#switch: FLC | FAC = article | FLC = list | FPC = picture }} falls under this WikiProject's scope, I am posting this notice here. It currently needs more comments, so if you've got time, '''[[{{#switch: FLC | FAC = Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/List of artwork at the United States Capitol complex/archive1 | FLC = Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of artwork at the United States Capitol complex/archive1 | FPC = Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/{{{3}}} }}|please comment on the nomination page]]'''. Thanks in advance! |
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==Arts-related percentages== |
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I just did a few calculations. Of Featured articles, arts-related articles comprise roughly 20%, while they comprise 19% of Good articles. [[User:Ganymead|''*Exeunt*'' Ganymead]] | [[User talk:Ganymead|Dialogue?]] 01:23, 24 April 2006 (UTC) |
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==Tag for WikiProjects== |
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I just whipped this up! [[User:Ganymead|''*Exeunt*'' Ganymead]] | [[User talk:Ganymead|Dialogue?]] 19:18, 24 April 2006 (UTC) |
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<big>'''WikiProject Arts</big> |
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Announcing the creation of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Arts|WikiProject Arts]], an effort to create a collaboration between all arts projects and artistically-minded Wikipedians in order to improve arts coverage. |
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* Such a pretty little tag, I'm considering rewording it as almost a sort of party invitation – I've never seen that done before. Perhaps with the header ''==An Invitation to all members of this Project/Portal=='' ... but before I go ahead with that I wonder whether, for brevity's sake, this should be made a [[Wikipedia:Template|template]], or whether that would fall foul of the [[Wikipedia:Templates for deletion]] squad. Having the message ''this template is being considered for deletion'' above the invitation won't reflect very well on the project. [[User:Ham|H<small>AM</small>]] [[Image:Icons-flag-wales.png]] 16:19, 25 April 2006 (UTC) |
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::Go ahead and re-word it as you wish. I didn't create this as a template as I don't see it being used very much. Certainly once the project gets off the ground we may consider making this a template, but as it stands I think just inserting the code will work just as well. [[User:Ganymead|''*Exeunt*'' Ganymead]] | [[User talk:Ganymead|Dialogue?]] 16:23, 25 April 2006 (UTC) |
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==Scope== |
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Why are television-, film- and radio-related WikiProjects currently excluded from this list? They're no more or less "artistic" than sculpture, comics, or music. Also, what about other, non-theatrical performing arts, like [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Dance|dance]] and perhaps [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Magic|stage magic]]? -[[User:Silence|Silence]] 18:15, 25 April 2006 (UTC) |
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:I'm of the opinion all of those should be included. I didn't even consider Magic, but it certainly does qualify. [[User:Ganymead|''*Exeunt*'' Ganymead]] | [[User talk:Ganymead|Dialogue?]] 18:52, 25 April 2006 (UTC) |
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::Yeah. They're all currently listed under "Arts" in [[Wikipedia:List of WikiProjects]], anyway. -[[User:Silence|Silence]] 18:57, 25 April 2006 (UTC) |
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:Dance was duly added and I'll do Magic next. [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Film|Film]] I'm willing to add, but I don't know about [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Buffyverse|Buffy]], [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Digimon Systems Update|Digimon]] or [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Wars|Star Wars]]: it seems to me that there are plenty of fans to keep these projects in the pink of health, and they neither need help like Theatre or Visual arts nor can they help us, as a big project like Music potentially could with related aspects of the arts. Perhaps I'm wrong, but do those pop culture topics really need what Project Arts is intended to offer as much as ones of the kind already on the list? [[User:Ham|H<small>AM</small>]] [[Image:Icons-flag-wales.png]] 19:14, 25 April 2006 (UTC) |
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::I don't see any need to add series-specific projects here. I was suggesting that we add WikiProject Film and WikiProject Television, not that we add WikiProject Star Wars or WikiProject Doctor Who or anything of the sort; why would we have to include those just to include "Film" and "Television", when we don't have to include "WikiProject Harry Potter" or "WikiProject Middle-earth" just to list "Novels" here, nor "WikiProject The Beatles" to list "Music" and "Musicians" here? That level of detail is unnecessary, as it should be covered on WikiProject Television, Music, Film, etc. instead, if anywhere. -[[User:Silence|Silence]] 19:40, 25 April 2006 (UTC) |
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:::Oh, that's perfectly fine by me, then! [[User:Ham|H<small>AM</small>]] [[Image:Icons-flag-wales.png]] 19:56, 25 April 2006 (UTC) |
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==Greetings from [[:Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels]]== |
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We have been increasing our activity from the end of last year and have recruited a number of new members. We are progressing through Wikipedias diet of article on Novel (of whatever level of elitism) and striving for increased quality and consistency. The consistency is more difficult to acheive as Novels come in all shapes and styles and articles that pre-exist are more difficult to bring to consistency. Anyway all the best. I have joined up as a contact between these projects. :: [[User:Kevinalewis|<span style="color: #33C;">Kevinalewis</span>]] : [[User talk:Kevinalewis|<span style="color:#CC9900"><sup>(Talk Page)</sup></span>]]/[[User:Kevinalewis/Desk|<span style="color:#CC9900"><sub>(Desk)</sub></span>]] 08:16, 26 April 2006 (UTC) |
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:Welcome! We're certainly glad to have a representative of WikiProject Novels! I just glanced at the project and I'm particularly impressed with the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Novel categorization|categorization project]]. This is something we may have to steal for this project. [[User:Ganymead|''*Exeunt*'' Ganymead]] | [[User talk:Ganymead|Dialogue?]] 20:07, 26 April 2006 (UTC) |
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==New layout== |
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I threw together a new layout for the mainpage. Now, it looks much better, methinks. Certainly not as sterile as it was. If anyone thinks the yellow is too bright, feel free to change the colours or let me know and I'll do it. [[User:Ganymead|''*Exeunt*'' Ganymead]] | [[User talk:Ganymead|Dialogue?]] 18:50, 26 April 2006 (UTC) |
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:I'm damning with faint praise, but I can live with it. :) [[User:Steve block|Steve block]] <small>[[User talk:Steve block|The wikipedian meme]]</small> 21:22, 26 April 2006 (UTC) |
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:Better looking apart from the colours - please, please go for something more subtle. We do not want to put people off before they join. Also I suspect once underway fully the layout will need to change again to be more functinal. At present this is beginning to take on the sharacter of a Portal. :: [[User:Kevinalewis|<span style="color: #33C;">Kevinalewis</span>]] : [[User talk:Kevinalewis|<span style="color:#CC9900"><sup>(Talk Page)</sup></span>]]/[[User:Kevinalewis/Desk|<span style="color:#CC9900"><sub>(Desk)</sub></span>]] 08:58, 27 April 2006 (UTC) |
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:: I think the redesign has flair! If it ''has'' to be changed – and I suppose Ganymead's (IMO marvellous) in-house style is something you either love or hate – let's at least keep it looking distinctive. Perhaps we should be taking our cue from some of the more aesthetically successful userpages. I see no reason why ours should look like every other WikiProject page. [[User:Ham|H<small>AM</small>]] [[Image:Icons-flag-wales.png]] 18:13, 27 April 2006 (UTC) |
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::I agree, as long as the design isn't too esoteric. We don't want to alienate people with an élitist design that's hard to use. But I definitely like what's going on now with the design. Good work, Ganymead! -- <font style="color: red">[[User:Rainmonger|T]]</font>.<font style="color: blue">[[User talk:Rainmonger|o]]</font>.<font style="color: gray">[[Special:Contributions/Rainmonger|n]]</font>.<font style="color: green">[[WP:ESP|y]]</font> 18:22, 27 April 2006 (UTC) |
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::Thanks for the compliments. Feel free to tweak the design if y'all would like. [[User:Ganymead|''*Exeunt*'' Ganymead]] | [[User talk:Ganymead|Dialogue?]] 18:30, 27 April 2006 (UTC) |
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*I don't think the current design looks ''bad'': it has a lot of potential, at the least. But it would be hard to dispute descriptions like "garish" or "gaudy" at this point; the bright pastel colors ''are'' a bit off-putting. Also a serious issue is that the use of tables on pages like this ''does'', in fact, scare off some users in practice, as it makes it significantly more troublesome to figure out where one has to edit in order to make changes occur on the page, such as the changes required to add oneself to the list of participants. I, for example, had to make 6 or 7 attempts in order to edit the right part of the page to tone down the glaring yellow color to a more reasonable and muted hue (though it was subsequently reverted for some reason..). |
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*Remember that one of the key components of all fields of art is the ability to balance sound and silence, positive and negative: this page will look a lot healthier and more aesthetically pleasing when it's less cluttered and has a bit more subtlety and moderation in its presentation. There is a very thin line between a beautiful art gallery and a bloated mound of shinies; we should strongly resist the urge to bloat this page with shiny images, cutting off all room for the ''text'' to breathe. Rather than shoving a bunch of huge (albeit very well-chosen) images down our readers' throats, some tasteful, selective placements at carefully-chosen and well-balanced intervals along the page will ultimately be more effective, compelling, and inviting to new users. As examples, we don't really need a giant friggin' portrait of Beethoven to represent the musical aspect of the arts: a simple line of music notes would be more than enough, and would be easier to fit into the layout in a non-obtrusive way. We should also avoid redundancies: we have the image of the dancers both near the top of the page and near the bottom (it's also poorly-alligned near the bottom), when we probably only need it near the bottom, in our signature template, especially since there's already an image depicting "dance" very near the top of the page; nor are two illustrations of comics, and two illustrations of literature, really necessaary (if you're going to include an extra one left-hand column, why not balance things out better and take a load off the page by removing one from the right-hand column?). But, as I said, the layout has potential. |
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*It will also probably look better when we don't have a cheesy Hallmark-esque quotation like "Art is the signature of civilizations." as our motto. :) Or lies like "Art means to dare — and to have been right." (Though I am, and long have been, fond of the "Art is useless" point. Wilde will be spared.) But I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder. :f -[[User:Silence|Silence]] 22:09, 27 April 2006 (UTC) |
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::Ahhh, the art critics have appeared! Thank you for your critique. It should be pointed out that I'm not really a designer, i'm a thespian who has taken a few design courses. Basically, this design is the design I've used for the two theatre wikiprojects I've created as well as my own userpage. It was my intent only to "jazz up" this page and give it a bit of flair. I'm completely open to any suggestions as to how to make this page more presentable. Of course, any project member is encouraged to make any changes they wish! So, go at it. I'll take a look at it tomorrow and see what can be removed to let the "text breathe". Cheers! [[User:Ganymead|''*Exeunt*'' Ganymead]] | [[User talk:Ganymead|Dialogue?]] 08:41, 29 April 2006 (UTC) |
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==Greetings from [[:Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera]]== |
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Opera has also been an active area during the past few months. We have a long way to go before we can begin to rival the coverage of the main print resource (the [[New Grove Dictionary of Opera]]), however in the long term Wikipedia is better suited to developing an up-to-date performance history than a conventional encylopedia. |
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We have made some progress in developing an appropriate ‘project style’ based on Wikipedia policies, taking into account that we are using many terms and references in languages other than English. Categorization is disorganized and proliferated, perhaps it always will be on Wikipedia? It might be helpful if the Arts Project produced some guidelines. I see there is a [[Portal:Arts/Categories]] page and I may make some comments there. |
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Lastly I hope members here respect the work done by the individual projects and do not try to impose solutions on them. Advice will be much appreciated, but not peremptory editing! Best regards to all. - [[User:Kleinzach|Kleinzach]] 18:37, 28 April 2006 (UTC) |
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:Welcome! We're glad to have your input here. One of the things I'd like to see this porject accomplish is a cleanup of arts-related categories. See below. Again, welcome! [[User:Ganymead|''*Exeunt*'' Ganymead]] | [[User talk:Ganymead|Dialogue?]] 08:33, 29 April 2006 (UTC) |
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==Categorization project== |
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As I have stated above, I think that one of the major goals of this WikiProject should be a top-down organization of arts related categories. Once this has been completed, there will still need to be reguilar maintenance of categories as articles are added. The goals of this should be: |
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#To better organize all arts related categories. Not only to aid those working on the categories but to make these categories easier for users of Wikipedia. |
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#To properly label art-related articles, this includes not only categorizing them correctly but given them proper stub tags, cleanup tags (a cleanup section for arts articles should probably be located here), no referecnes tags, or even deleting them if they're not found to be encyclopedic. Certainly this will also help to locate articles needing to be merged and renamed as well. |
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#To search out articles that need to be categorized and "corral" them in the proper categories. |
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Once categories begin to be more organized, we can better get an idea of what is missing and what areas need work. |
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===Accomplishing this=== |
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[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels|WikiProject Novels]] has an ingenious [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Novel categorization|chart]] detailing the categories, including those that have yet to be created. This could be helpful, certainly for the upper eschelons of the arts categories. |
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One of the first things that really needs attention is the fact that we have three major category headings for this area. They are: [[:Category:The arts]], [[:Category:Arts]] and [[:Category:Art]]. There was a discussion towards the end of 2004 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Art#Category:Art here] about naming. I think having three categories completely confuses the issue. My suggestion would be to combine these under [[Category:Arts]] and get rid of the other categories. Anyway, I digress... |
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This is all just a suggestion. Should interest exist, I'll whip up a project subpage to work on this. As for me, it's 4:30 AM and I need sleep. Cheers! [[User:Ganymead|''*Exeunt*'' Ganymead]] | [[User talk:Ganymead|Dialogue?]] 08:33, 29 April 2006 (UTC) |
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:I think there should be one top level category. [[User:Steve block|Steve block]] <small>[[User talk:Steve block|The wikipedian meme]]</small> 22:17, 30 April 2006 (UTC) |
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::Regarding the three major category headings, [[:Category:Arts]] can clearly go because this talk page is the only page on it. As for [[:Category:Art]], it's not [[:Category:The arts]] that would make it redundant, but rather [[:Category:Visual arts]] (although we need to move irrelevances like [[Anarchism and the arts]] from C:Art before we arrive at that hurdle). |
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::I've been working on [[Portal:Arts/Categories]] (which I've based on [[Portal:Science/Categories|its corresponding page on Portal:Science]] rather than the Novels project's chart) as a possible blueprint for the eventual arrangement of the categories, and probably the first thing you notice is how "''Performing arts''" is followed by "''by country''"; but "''Visual arts''" has "''by region''" and "''Literature''" "''by nationality''" – very confusing. |
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::I would argue that the neatest way of resolving this would be for every subdivision of the arts to have a "by region" category, as with [[:Category:Art by region]], which has subcategories for African, Asian and Western art. This doesn't exactly solve the thorny question of nationality over culture over geographical location, but at least it circumvents it until you're well into the sub-subcategories. [[User:Ham|H<small>AM</small>]] [[Image:Icons-flag-wales.png]] |
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:::Ok, I would argue keeping [[:Category:Arts]] and merging everything there. As I see it, the name of [[:Category:The arts]] is simply wrong. Naming conventions only allow articles like "the" to be used if the name of the category is a specific title. Certainly, both "arts" and "the arts" refers to the same exact thing, the article doesn't add anything in this context. As for [[:Category:Art]], while "art" is the commonly used term for visual arts, for our purposes being specific is the most useful thing. Of course, if we were to do away with that category, it would mean the renaming of a number of categories. [[User:Ganymead|''*Exeunt*'' Ganymead]] | [[User talk:Ganymead|Dialogue?]] 16:22, 1 May 2006 (UTC) |
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==Problems with the Portal== |
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This morning (May the 1st) [[Portal:Arts]] didn't have a featured article or picture ready to feature! I knocked together [[Portal:Arts/Featured article/May, 2006]] (the [[Abbey Theatre]] in Dublin) and [[Portal:Arts/Featured picture/May, 2006]] (a [[Henry Moore]] sculpture) a few minutes ago but clearly there needs to be a voting process in place to decide which FAs/FPs appear on the Portal page. Another huge problem is that [[Portal:Art]], linked to on hundreds of pages, still misleadingly redirects to [[Portal:Arts]] – amending all those links might be a job for a [[Wikipedia:Bots|bot]]. [[User:Ham|H<small>AM</small>]] [[Image:Icons-flag-wales.png]] 11:05, 1 May 2006 (UTC) |
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Requested move at Talk:Rococo Revival
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There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Rococo Revival#Requested move 21 September 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. — Amakuru (talk) 12:29, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?)
[edit]There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?)#Requested move 23 September 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. — BarrelProof (talk) 16:37, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
Discussion of relationship between The arts, Art and Visual arts
[edit]There is a discussion on the relationship between The arts, Art and Visual arts at Talk:Art#Art vs The arts vs Visual arts merges that may interest members of this WikiProject. Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 13:24, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
Featured list candidate
[edit]List of artwork at the United States Capitol complex has been nominated as a featured list candidate; the nomination can be found here. Since the list falls under this WikiProject's scope, I am posting this notice here. It currently needs more comments, so if you've got time, please comment on the nomination page. Thanks in advance!
— Preceding unsigned comment added by EF5 (talk • contribs) 13:45, 17 October 2024 (UTC)