Talk:Octagon Chapel, Liverpool

Illustration
The illustration of the chapel is not a "pen and ink sketch". It is reproduced from an 1890s publication, which indicates that it is some sort of engraving. The description is wrong on the Commons page, which is currently locked.

Moreover, even if it was a drawing in pen and ink, it ought not be described as a "sketch". I have read that word inappropriately used on Wikipedia to describe everything from the finest and most detailed studies to carefully measured and ruled diagrams. The word "sketch" is onomatopoeic: in other words, if the picture took about 20 seconds to do, and the drawing implement went "scritch-scratch" as it was dome, then, and only then, is the drawing a sketch.

This picture is rather amateurish, but much too careful to be described as a "sketch". Why can't people just use the word "drawing"?

Amandajm (talk) 06:04, 16 July 2011 (UTC)