Talk:African red slip ware

we don't need " ware" on this
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ancient_Roman_pottery. Ware is not the common practice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sfsheath (talk • contribs) 00:04, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Experts just say African Red Slip but for the uneducated like me it seems more self-explanatory to include ware. I then have a clue it might be about pottery rather than about an African who slipped on something red. Philafrenzy (talk) 00:40, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

But we don't append " ware" after the phrase when it's used in a sentence. Look at the page itself. THe last sentence of the 2nd paragraph will read poorly if it's " the breakup of commercial contacts that typified the later 7th century coincides with the final decline of the African red slip ware industry. " So we're making people format links when they use it elsewhere. That's a burden. And we're inconsistent. Only regional Roman ceramic categories get " ware" appended. And is "ware" really a non-technical term for the non-expert reader. It has no good definition. It's vague and jargony. Sfsheath (talk) 04:51, 8 January 2014 (UTC)


 * And yes, I am a dreaded "expert". But I wouldn't be editing wiki Roman pottery pages if I didn't want to communicate with the general public. Sfsheath (talk) 04:52, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

There is no reason why it can't be abbreviated to African Red Slip in the article text. I agree there are inconsistencies in a number of articles but the common name is clearly African Red Slip Ware. Here are some links: I am sure you can find some links that don't include ware, but the longer name is both less cryptic and has a stronger claim to be the common name in my view. Philafrenzy (talk) 11:26, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
 * http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/gr/b/bowl_with_appliqu%C3%A9_decoration.aspx
 * http://potsherd.net/atlas/Ware/NARS
 * http://labspace.open.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=348822
 * http://www.molas.org.uk/projects/fabrics_tei.asp?report=nrfc&GUID=&fabricCode=NAF%20RS
 * http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/42327/
 * http://archaeologyqueen.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/history-of-african-red-slip-ware.html

Im doing a project about African red slips and I need to find more information on them.
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