Talk:Faience

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This article needs expanding and then revising to make it read more easily.

                                Simon

[edit] The list

Here's why I added the list at the end: when working on the Wikipedia:2004 Encyclopedia topics project I realized that EB2004 has a virtual fetish about describing the different types of faience. Eventually, WP should cover the same ground. By the conventions of the project, each EB entry should correspond to a WP article or at least a redirect. I figured, if there will be many short articles, this list would be useful. Or we could move the list to its own WP article, maybe even include the brief descriptions embedded in the list itself, and point all the redirs to that. I don't know which way to go yet. David Brooks 18:21, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Do you approve my technique of working some EB headings into the text? Not all are really deserving (yet) of separate articles. I'm a lumper: I like long, rich articles full of context. I dislike brief articles that offer no links. --Wetman 06:42, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Whatever works. The rule should be: if a user searches using the title of the EB article, they should land on an article that clearly describes what they were looking for. If it's obvious how to find the information in the page they land on, that's OK. Unfortunately you can't combine a redirect with a # tag. It's too soon to say whether your technique will work, as there aren't many styles described in the text yet.

If you like it lumpy, it might work to add a sentence or two to each element of the list, and a seealso if there is enough material to warrant a whole article. David Brooks 23:38, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Someone has broken up the introduction to fit it under "historical" headings. The material and the name need to be introduced first. An example of how sense can be lost through "splitting".--Wetman 20:00, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Egyptian Faience needs updating?

I'm on ArtStor right now, looking at something that claims to be an Egyptian Faience bowl from 1540-1350 BC (I came here to see what Faience was). I'm not really sure how ArtStor or Wikipedia works... so I'm going write myself a note and if no-one rewrites the Egyptian section by the time I locate the note again (perhaps a week from now), I'll mention this in the article (which currently gives the impression that only beads were made in Egypt), and in the article specific to Egyptian Faience. If anyone else has access to ArtStor, I'm looking at CMA_.1914.614 "Decorated Bowl". I would much prefer if someone else did it though. Peace! :)