Talk:Blanc-de-Chine

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[edit] merge proposal

The merge proposal is initiated by User:Marshall46

  1. Blanc-de-Chine
  2. Dehua porcelain factories
  3. Dehua white porcelain in Japan

I think these three articles should be merged to one article because The three are overlapped and all at start status. I think Blanc-de-Chine could absorb the others but I'm not sure this French title is "common name in English speaking world for the porcelains produced in Dehua. According to Britannica it is named as "Dehua porcelain". --Appletrees (talk) 01:08, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

  • Support triple merge (a gallery may be needed for the pics, which should not be side by side). I'd be happy with Blanc-de-Chine, which I'd say was the traditional name in English. So long as there are redirects in place (including variants no hyphen etc), that or Dehua porcelain is fine. Johnbod (talk) 01:18, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
  • No objection. I believe [Dehua porcelain] would be appropriate. We can keep the redirects. -- FayssalF - Wiki me up® 02:18, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Actually: :*6,500 ghits for "Dehua porcelain" (many from Chinese sites), and
  • 58,500 for "Blanc-de-Chine", the great majority of which seem to be in English. Johnbod (talk) 02:24, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
  • True and that's why the article was created under this title but I thought "Dehua porcelain" is the technical name of it. In fact Blanc-de-Chine is a loanword; a pseudo-Gallicism which still in use. -- FayssalF - Wiki me up® 03:37, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
  • I thought Dehua porcelain embraces all porcelains made in Dehua because just like the name, Blanc-de-Chine seems to limit only 'white porcelains'. However, the French name is obviously dominantly being used, so keeping at it is appropriate but I prefer the title subtracts the hyphen. --Appletrees (talk) 04:34, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments. The consensus appears to be in favour of merging the three articles under the heading Blanc de Chine. I am willing to do this but I will not be able to do it until the end of April. I have P.J.Donelly's Blanc de Chine, which is a well-respected and comprehensive work on the subject, although Nigel Wood's Chinese Glazes is better on the technical aspects. The wares from Dehua that are not Blanc de Chine, although of less importance, do, however, need to be dealt with somewhere. Marshall46 (talk) 19:14, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Depending on how much is written, they could be added as sections to b d c, or given their own article. Johnbod (talk) 19:26, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Now merged in Blanc de Chine. Marshall46 (talk) 13:36, 16 May 2008 (UTC)