Talk:Chair

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What the heck is this? Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Please copy this to Wiktionary. --mav 07:15 7 Jul 2003 (UTC)

My apologies. I'm just lernin' see? Does your comment refer to the article in its current state or to the dictionary style entry? --sugarfish 00:31 8 Jul 2003 (UTC)

You could turn the furniture part into an encyclopedia. You know - the history and development of the chair, various styles -Windsor, ladderback, caned, wicker, leather, recliners, thrones, the socioeconomics of chairs, etc. Rmhermen 00:40 8 Jul 2003 (UTC)
You seem to know more than I! :) I think I will leave the chair alone and keep to things that I know about. --sugarfish 03:43 8 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Merge with wiktionary:chair has been made. Should this article be deleted? --Jiang 07:08, 11 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Made it an article again with a lot more content. History section from [1] with a light copyedit. Samw 17:50, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)

How about other uses for chairs? Step-stools and substitute tables even though they aren't designed for that. But I don't think it's important enough....--Macrowiz 01:00, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] Special types of chairs

The article list of chairs was already split out from this article. Do we need the section "special types of chairs". I suggest that be moved to list of chairs. Samw 00:02, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

The "Massachusetts bus" picture is really bad. You can barely see the benches in the actual picture and serves to show nothing but a bus stop with some unusual benches. I propose deleting it, although I don't think I should do it right off the bat without a general agreement. --207.118.7.99 05:41, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chair Parts

Has anyone noticed the list of chair parts is missing 'Legs'?

I've deleted the whole section; it was pointless as is with a trivial list of parts. Samw 03:12, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
It messes up the image below it, I added a small line to fix that, although it's not exactly complete. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RockPunchX69 (talk • contribs) 18:26, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] See also section

Bergere should be added. I cant add this as page is protected. Decoratrix 05:40, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] First picture

I replaced the picture of the "lolchair" with a less goofy one. The "smiling chair" just invited people to create their own "interesting" captions. Joyous! | Talk 01:01, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm gonna give it another chance, and I'll personally monitor any of said captions. RockPunchX69 | Talk
Do you really think it's a better picture for the lead of the article? A big part of the chair is covered by the table. With the other picture, you can see all of the parts. Joyous! | Talk 00:02, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
One of the main things that it has is the ventilation hole, which emphasizes on the modernity of it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RockPunchX69 (talk • contribs) 11:56, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Office chairs

I think the article needs a picture of an office chair. In my experience this general type of chair (office chair or computer chair, adjustable, with five wheels) is in very common use nowadays. The other pictures in the article are fine but collectively somewhat archaic, at least in some parts of the world. I searched for "office chair" at Commons and found a picture, so I think I'll put it in. --Coppertwig (talk) 23:53, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Greek chair

(From Chair circa 9 January 2008 14:43 GMT) "The earliest known form of Greek chair, going back to five or six centuries BCE, had a back but stood straight up, front and back."

What exactly does that mean? The sentence really makes no sense to me and to many other people reading it. By the way, this article was mentioned in a recent Cyanide and Happiness comic [2].

--Logoskakou (talk) 14:45, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

This was cut&pasted from the original 1911 Britannica article. See: [3]. Feel free to update. Samw (talk) 01:49, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Is it a good idea to repeat bad information? Just because it was in an (outdated) encyclopedia doesn't mean it should be included on Wikipedia. Acording to the Britannica, the 5th Century BC Greek chair is called a klismos (name not included in this article). That chair is quoted as having "four curving, splayed legs and curved back rails with a narrow concave backrest between them." This doesn't sound like straight up, nor front and back. I would love to personally try to rewrite that sentence/section, but for the life of me I can't make heads or tails of the meaning, and I'm not up on how to write for Wikipedia. On that note, is (nearly) direct copy and paste a standard of Wikipedia? If so, that's discouraging... Andrew Donnelly (talk) 07:49, 22 March 2008 (UTC)