User talk:Miss Puffskein

Welcome to Wikipedia, User:Miss Puffskein.
Thank you for editing Meenas. If you like, you can go back and expand the article. :-)
You are welcome to make changes at Template:Opentask. My suggestion is to leave 'Meenas' there for a while, in case anyone else wants a stab at editing the article as well. If you come across any articles that you think are good candidates to list on 'Template:Opentask', please let me know and I'll put it up there, or you can post it there yourself.
Have fun ! :-)
-- PFHLai 22:28, 2004 Jul 12 (UTC)

Hello

Hi and welcome, hope you stay around! ··gracefool 05:58, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

forgot to sign

I wanted to let you know that you forgot to sign your entry at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. -Frazzydee 21:12, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Art

Hello! I just saw your comment at the Village Pump. Certainly more art articles are very welcome, as is improving much of what is here already. I'm one of the (too few) who has sometimes been doing some of this, though it's not really my field. See List of artworks for such articles on individual artworks as we have so far (and if you happen upon any not listed there, please add them to the list). Cheers, -- Infrogmation 00:06, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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Rex071404 00:44, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Art articles?

Please let me know if this is not the right place, thanks. :)

I remember reading somewhere on the site that Wikipedia has a few gaps in knowledge, and one of them was art. After looking through the site a little while, it does seem like fine art is a little neglected. I'd love to create articles in this subject area, since it is my career and all! But I'm still a little new, so I need to ask questions here first. Has this been discussed before?

I'd like to create separate articles for individual works of art. Not all of them, of course! Just major works that are important (in an art history sense) or well-known (in other words, ones whose articles will be longer than stubs). I'd also like to list as many works as possible on the artist's article, as well. However, I haven't seen many articles on individual artworks. Is this because we shouldn't do it, or only because not many people have an interest in doing it?

Thanks for reading! Miss Puffskein 22:09, Aug 16, 2004 (UTC)

"I haven't seen many articles on individual artworks. Is this because we shouldn't do it, or only because not many people have an interest in doing it?" ::It is absolutely the latter - art is a definite weak spot, and if you want to create articles on individual works, go right ahead. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them (you can ask on my talk page). Oh, and as for copyright issues, you might want to read up on the Wikipedia:Copyright FAQ. →Raul654 22:18, Aug 16, 2004 (UTC)

I'm no expert, but I don't see a problem with that - we already have individual articles on famous novels (eg. Nineteen Eighty-Four) and pictorial art should be treated no different. If people may type it in the searchbox, you should create an article about it...--Fangz 22:25, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Considering we have articles on individual songs, individual theorems, and individual video games, I think articles on individual pieces of fine art, even not-so-famous ones, would be more than welcome. I also encourage you to add articles on their creators if necessary, and make lots of links. It would also be especially nice if you can acquire, or encourage other Wikipedians to acquire, images of the works which are in the public domain or under the GFDL. I'm not a lawyer, but I think if you go into a museum and photograph a piece created by an artist who's been dead for a while (90 years?) that you can do anything you like with the photo. Derrick Coetzee 23:41, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Yes, please create the articles! Derrick Coetzee: I think any direct reproduction of an image of an artist that is dead for at least 90 years can be used as public domain, since the photographer/scanner did not hold the original copyright. -- Chris 73 | Talk 23:44, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

We have some, listed at List of artworks. More and better is encouraged! Cheers, -- Infrogmation 23:52, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Be bold. Just go ahead. Just do something reasonable. As long you can write three or four decent, sensible paragraphs about an individual work of art, by all means create an article about it. The only objection would be single-sentence articles that would be better structured as a list. As long as each individual article is OK, don't fret about the organization. When there are a lot of article you or other people may have ideas about how best to organize them, but that can be done later.

As you do this, you should try to educate yourself about copyright issues. (Don't ask me, I don't know). But read all the Wikipedia article you can find on image policy and so forth. The problem is that even though old works of art are in the public domain, a) nobody is really 100% sure whether a museum, publisher, etc. can claim that their specific reproduction is copyrighted, and b) lots of them do make that claim. But don't let that stop you from getting started. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 23:54, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Very glad to have more people adding articles on the arts - Welcome. I suspect the only reason we don't have too many articles on individual works of art, is that they can be a little harder to write than the biographies of artists. There can be copyright problems on showing images of particular works of art, but this shouldn't be much of a issue with artists who died pre-1930 or so, where their work should be in the public domain now. I can also imagine that a tricky article naming problem might crop up when discussing some modern works. I've been to shows where every painting has been 'Untitled (1968)' or 'Untitled (1969)' - goodness knows how you talk about them. -- Solipsist 12:53, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Yes! Please! more art and artists! If you have anything to add to Art car, about decorated and transformed vehicles-as-works-of-art, please dive right in. I haven't had the time I thought I would to work on it.Pedant 18:12, 2004 Aug 18 (UTC)

Hi, I moved the above from the village pump in case you hadn't seen all the replies yet as it was time to clean the page. Angela. 02:01, Aug 20, 2004 (UTC)

Remember to categorize pages as you go, that way you don't need to make any lists. ··gracefool |☺ 04:38, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)