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Should this page distinguish seascapes, moonscapes and the like? --Daniel C. Boyer 20:10, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)

that is an artistic perception :-)

As for me, land is something solid, on which we are walking. Not sea. And land is something inherently linked to Earth. Not moon.

PomPom

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[edit] Disambiguation

Shouldn't we have some better disambiguation between this meaning of "landscape" and "landscape" as an orientation (i.e. horizontal as opposed to "portrait" as vertical). The only reference I can find to this is landscape mode which is a bit of an odd page. Oh, I see, there is a sentence hidden in there somewhere; I guess this page just needs a bit of refactoring and formatting, which I don't have time for right now, I'm afraid. - IMSoP 23:36, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] looks familiar....

This article looks strikingly similar to a footnote in Barbara Bender, Landscape: Politics and Perspectives, page 2, footnote #3...unless Barbara submitted this material, I hope whoever did asked.

There is an end quote to the Bender note, but no clear indication of where the quote begins. Perhaps with "Landscape"? Needs clarification. Deirdre 23:43, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Reorg

The Landscape article was flagged as needing cleanup so I tried to make a start by creating a new page called "Landscape (Visual Arts)" for the painting stuff, and having "Landscape" as a sort of disambiguation page.

The "Landscape (Visual Arts)" page seems to be pure purple prose. I don't understand a word of it and I don't know which bits should be left in the "visual arts" page and which moved elsewhere. BTW I called it "Visual Arts" rather than "painting" so as to potentially cover photography too. If it's felt better then there couldbe one page for paintings and one for photography (if there is ever any photography content).

For the record, the following are the only substantive bits of information from the old "Landscape" page which haven't yet found a new home. It's important that information isn't lost when this sort of thing is done, so I'll look at this soon when I get a moment (or anyone else please go ahead):

"The practice of designing landscapes to engage with issues around visual pleasure and other aspects in terms of function is landscape architecture. A member of the landscape architecture community who has passed a state registration exam is termed a [[landscape architect]]." - should be covered under landscape architecture but I'll check.

"Landforms are based on a set of elements that include elevation, slope, orientation, stratification, rock exposure, and soil type. Landforms by name include berms, mounds, hills, cliffs, valleys, and so forth." - should be covered under "landforms" but I'll check

"The Habitat Theory claims that people like open landscapes because the human species originates in the African Savanna. This theory has been applied to explain why open landscapes are valued, but it fails to explain why this is not universally true." - not sure about this one. New "Habitat Theory" article???

Above now done.

[edit] More reorg

Rather stupidly when doing the above I didn't check to see if there was already a "landscape painting" page. There was, just redirecting to Landscape. Anyway, what I've done is move "Landscape (visual arts)" to "Landscape painting", which is what I should have done to start with. That article is still (IMO) largely incomprehensible, but there you go ....

[edit] Merge with Landscape (disambiguation)

I propose merging Landscape (disambiguation) into Landscape because most articles link to Landscape. 99% of the articles that link to Landscape (disambiguation) are linking from a redirect from Landscaping, which could itself be as disambiguation page. Sparkit 14:26, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

  • IMO the two should clearly be merged. If you do it then it would be worthwhile fixing the continuity of the bullet point text at the same time. Curently it reads:
Landscape means:
  • The layout of a land area...
  • Landscaping is the practice of arranging elements...
  • Landscape art is the depiction of a landscape in a painting or photograph.
  • The orientation of a rectangular page...
  • In String Theory, it is used to refer to...

which doesn't flow correctly. I would tend to have landscaping just redirect to landscape, since there are currently seem to be no meanings of landscaping for which this wouldn't be appropriate. Otherwise there will probably end up being a fair amount of duplication and overlap (e.g. "landscaping" and "landscape" will persumably both have to refer to "landscape gardening", "landscape ecology", etc. etc.) Matt 02:40, 11 January 2006 (UTC).

Merged in Landscape (disambiguation) and cleaned up while i was about it :: Supergolden 19:33, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

I think it would be helpful to show more used links first. For example, I searched for Australian Landscapes and all I got was links to Australians. I think it would be MUCH more helpful if you arranged them diffrently.

Kirsty Gray, not Wikipedia user.

[edit] Landscape orientation

Shouldn't this make mention of landscape photography and also landscape orientation (as opposed to portrait)? Not sure, so I'm asking here first. Goyston (talk) (contribs) 03:26, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Landscape in optimization

A neighborhood structure togheter with a problem instance define the topology of the search space, also called landscape. A search landscape can be visualized as a labeled graph in which the nodes are solutions (labels indicate their objective function value) and arcs represent the neighborhood relation between solutions.

[edit] Nonsense etymology

  • What absolute rubish that Dutch "land" would stem from Basquish.
"comes from the Dutch word landschap, from land (patch or area that comes from the Basquish word landa meaning labored earth)"

Quite obviously Dutch "land" is the same word as English "land". So get rid of this stupid etymology. And verify your etymologies of "land" and "landscape" at http://www.etymonline.com/

-- LR, a Dutch speaking Wikipedia user 10:23, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

  • I completely agree. Please, some authorised wikicontributor CHANGE IT! I found this: [Dutch landschap, from Middle Dutch landscap, region : land, land; see lendh- in Indo-European roots + -scap, state, condition (collective suff.).] The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. Anyway, the whole article is pretty poor. Gaianauta 10:25, 29 August 2007 (UTC)