Talk:Cornice

Geison
I added three template messages to this article today because I suggest that the Geison section is too specialized for inclusion in the Cornice article. A link to the main Geison article placed in a newly created See Also section would be an appropriate level of reference for the topic. My reasons for proposing this change to the article are:

1. in the existing section of the Cornice article, Geison is proposed as equivalent or synonymous to cornice, which is misleading to the layman reader. Geison is the Ancient Greek language word for that part of a Classical entablature that is named a cornice in the English language. Geison is not a word that is in common usage in English, not even for specialists in architecture or architectural history. The only sort of specialist that would conceivably use the term is a scholar of Ancient Greece or Ancient Greek art and architecture.

2. the Geison section on the Cornice page duplicates most of the information found in the main Geison article.

Dcbuzzed (talk) 23:02, 1 April 2009 (UTC)


 * More than three years have passed since the above comment was made and so far no one has taken any action on this issue. I agree with the comment completely— this article is about the cornice, not the geison, and a See Also entry for geison is all that should be necessary.  In the Wikipedia tradition of "being bold", I am going to remove all of this material and leave a link in See Also at the bottom.  If another editor decides to revert this edit, please make sure you justify the decision here on the talk page first.  Thanks!   KDS 4444  Talk   10:41, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Internal
Isn't "cornice" also used to describe the internal projections in a building, for supporting floors? --jmb (talk) 15:24, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Eave return vs. Cornice return
Cornice return directs to a section of this article; Eave return is a new article. Maybe these are different or maybe they are the same. If the same, I think "eave return" is more common as a name. I am not sure if "cornice return" is really a thing, maybe the section here should be merged to there. It seems to me that this is a topic that is part of eaves or gable ends, not particularly part of cornices, which are flat and not sloping. Help developing the Eave return article, anyhow, would be appreciated. --Doncram (talk) 00:06, 9 August 2019 (UTC)