Wikipedia:WikiProject Sculpture

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WikiProject Sculpture, a sub-project of WikiProject Arts, is a place for Wikipedians to discuss issues and organize information about Sculpture. Like any page on Wikipedia, all are welcome to edit and contribute to this WikiProject.

Rather than try to force information to appear in a uniform way, this WikiProject presents guidelines to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. These recommendations for creating Sculpture content are based on various Wikipedia style guides and common practices for writing good articles. Use your own judgment in applying these guidelines, along with other Wikipedia guidelines, to compose articles and be bold.

If you would like to help, see the How to help section below and ask questions on the talk page.

Feel free to add your name to the participants list and/or add the project userbox {{User WikiProject Sculpture}} to your user page.

Contents 1 Scope 2 Goals 3 How to help 3.1 Open Tasks 3.1.1 Articles to be created 3.1.2 Articles to be improved 3.1.3 Articles for deletion 3.2 Larger projects 4 Similar WikiProjects 5 Participants 6 Recognized content 6.1 Featured articles 6.2 Good articles 6.3 Did you know (DYK)s 7 Formerly recognized content 7.1 Former featured articles 7.2 Former good articles 8 Infoboxes 8.1 General 8.2 Art topics 8.3 Sculptors 8.4 Sculptures 8.5 Image pages 9 Templates 9.1 Tagging 9.2 Userboxes 9.3 Stubs

[edit] Scope

The project seeks to improve the quality of articles related to sculpture. The main category that represents articles that fall within the scope of this project is Category:Sculpture .

[edit] Goals

1. To provide a place to discuss common issues on Sculpture related pages.
2. To thoroughly explore Sculpture globally and historically.
3. To ensure all pages meet the standards of Wikipedia:Cite sources. See also WikiProject Fact and Reference Check.
4.  ?

[edit] How to help

How you can help depends on your time, resources, and interest. Here are a variety of ideas for contributions ranging from simple to complex. Take a look at the Open Tasks section of this page for more article-specific tasks.

If you'd like to help with any of the below and want assistance, post a query on the talk page. Project members will be glad to help.

Writing and editing

• Create new articles: A good starting point might be requested sculpture articles.
  • List articles that are needed, but you aren't creating yourself, at requested sculpture articles.
  • If creating pages about sculptors, see Manual of Style (biographies) and WikiProject Biography.
• Expand stubs:
  • Choose an article from an sculpture stub subcategory and develop it. (See Article development.)
  • Choose an article from an sculptor stub subcategory and develop it. (See Article development.)
• Check references on sculpture pages.
• Copy-edit pages. Fix up grammar, spelling, links and the like.

Images

• Upload and add images to sculpture pages. A logical starting point would be the requested art images.
  • Public domain image resources is a great place to start looking for images to add.
  • External links to online galleries/images can also be helpful, especially when free images are not available for upload and copyright violations might be an issue.

Wikipedia maintenance

• Manage infoboxes (Please use these judiciously and be conscientious of page layout.)
  • Add artist infoboxes (this one will do for sculptors too) {{Infobox Artist}}
    • Add {{needs artist infobox}} to the talk pages of artist entries that lack said infobox.
  • Add sculpture infoboxes {{Sculpture}}
• Check categorization of existing articles and help organize. (See Categorization and Category:Sculpture)
• Revert vandalism on articles to do with sculpture.
• Contribute to articles for deletion discussions.
• Contribute to conversations on articles listed here: Requests for comment/Media, art and literature.

[edit] Open Tasks

[edit] Articles to be created

Wikipedia:Requested articles/Culture and fine arts#Sculpture

[edit] Articles to be improved

• History of sculpture

[edit] Articles for deletion

It is important to have an input into Articles for deletion. There will be a special page for sculpture articles, which needs to be maintained, updated and monitored. It will be found here: WikiProject Deletion sorting/Sculpture. Articles need to be added manually: please add any AfD you want to draw attention to, and also put it on your watchlist.

[edit] Larger projects

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

• Parent: Arts

• Architecture
• Comics
  • Anime and manga
  • Comic strips
• Graffiti
• Contemporary Art
• Color
• History of photography
• Visual arts, for painting etc
• Greece and Rome (kind of a parent for the classical sculpture side of things)

[edit] Participants

It's not necessary to list your name here to edit this page or edit related articles, though we'ld love it if you'ld join us. Feel free to display the project userbox on your userpage: {{User WikiProject Sculpture}}, or to add yourself to Category:WikiProject Sculpture participants.

If you do list yourself, please put down your user name and interests - that's it! (And perhaps if you study/have studied art history, or if you have access to one or more sculpture museums for taking Public Domain images).

1. User:Neddyseagoon - talk - Classical sculpture and Renaissance sculpture - any London/UK museums
2. User:Cuprum17 - talk - Modern metal sculpture
3. User:Pamela Gardiner Bronze casting sculpture and glass sculpture, editor of 'real biography' of Rowan Gillespie, and wiki editor.

[edit] Recognized content

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Good articles

[edit] Did you know (DYK)s

[edit] Formerly recognized content

[edit] Former featured articles

[edit] Former good articles

[edit] Infoboxes

Please add them as you find them, using caution, especially with the larger ones, which may disrupt carefully designed pages.

[edit] General

Not specific to sculpture

• {{Middle Ages Tall}}
• {{Modernism}}
• {{Renaissance}}
• {{Usculture}}

[edit] Art topics

• {{Art history}}
• {{French art history}}
• {{Japanese art history}}
• {{Russianart}}
• {{Westernart}}
• {{Western art history}}

[edit] Sculptors

• {{Infobox Artist}}

[edit] Sculptures

• {{Sculpture}}
• {{Artwork}}

[edit] Image pages

• {{Image information art}}

[edit] Templates

[edit] Tagging

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{WPSculpture}}	This article falls within the scope of WikiProject Sculpture, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to sculpture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. ??? Class: This article has not been assigned a class according to the assessment scale.	The project notice designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that fits within the scope of this project.

[edit] Userboxes

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{User WikiProject Sculpture}}	This user is a member of the WikiProject Sculpture.	This can be placed on your user page to show that you are a part of this Wikiproject.
{{User:UBX/artlover}}	This user is an art lover.	Just for fun.
{{User Art}}	ART This user's favourite subject is Art.	Just for fun.

[edit] Stubs

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{Sculpture-stub}}	This sculpture article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.	To mark art articles in need of expansion. Adds article to Category: Sculpture stubs.
{{Sculptor-stub}}	This sculptor-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.	To mark artist articles in need of expansion. Adds article to Category: Sculptor stubs.
{{art-org-stub}}	This article about an art or artists' organization is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.	To mark art or artist organization articles in need of expansion. Adds article to Category:Art_organization_stubs.