User:Planetneutral/VisualArts1

WikiProject Visual arts is a place for Wikipedians to discuss issues and organize information about the visual arts. Like any page on Wikipedia, all are welcome to edit and contribute to this project. Rather than try to force information to appear in a uniform way, this WikiProject presents guidelines to focus the effects of other Wikipedians. These recommendations about Visual arts content are based on various Wikipedia style guides and common practices for writing good articles. Use your own judgment in applying these guidelines, as well as all Wikipedia guidelines, to compose articles and be bold.

If you would like to help, see the How to help section below and ask questions on the talk page.

Scope
Visual arts articles currently fall under the current main categories:
 * Category:Visual arts (Category:Art has merged into this)

How to help
How you can help depends on your time, resources, and interest. Here are a variety of ideas for contributions ranging from simple to complex:
 * Check for factual and spelling errors on visual arts pages.
 * Improve the quality of existing articles, see How to structure the content.
 * Check categorization of existing articles and help organize.
 * List needed pages and create new pages, see Requested articles/Culture_and_fine_arts
 * Create and edit pages about artists. See also Manual of Style (biographies) and WikiProject Biography for guidlines.
 * Upload and add images to all visual arts pages. If any pages need images, it's visual arts.
 * Add links to websites where more art can be viewed. Particularly with articles for which art is not public domain, thus uploading images to Wikipedia would be a copyright violation.
 * Update Portal:Visual arts. The portal can hopefully be updated daily if not more often than that.
 * Expand art stubs and artist stubs into full articles.
 * Check references on visual arts pages.
 * List questions, article requests and others on the talk page.
 * Inform members who have displayed interest in the subject of the project via their talk page or the talk page of project pages.
 * Contribute to conversations on articles listed here: Requests for comment/Media, art and literature.
 * Revert Vandalism on this portal and on articles to do with Visual arts.
 * Contribute to work listed on the portal's Things_you_can_do section and the todo list.

Articles for deletion
It is important to have an input into Articles for deletion. There is now a special page for visual art articles, which needs to be maintained, updated and monitored. It can be found here: WikiProject Deletion sorting/Visual arts. Articles need to be added manually: please add any AfD you want to draw attention to, and also put it on your watchlist.

Sidebar projects

 * Art Manual of Style. Suggestion only. Develop an Art Manual of Style.


 * Move art images to Wikicommons. Suggestion only. Move eligible (world-wide public domain) art images to Wikicommons


 * Categories.See Portal:Visual_arts/Categories, Portal_talk:Arts/Categories. Categorization ideas Art categories

Similar WikiProjects

 * Parent: Arts


 * Architecture
 * Comics
 * Anime and manga
 * Comic strips
 * Graffiti
 * Contemporary Art

Participants
It's not necessary to list your name here to edit this page or edit related articles. It may help, though.
 * User:ChristianGL Focusing on the old masters and all kinds of classical figurativity.
 * User:Sketchee
 * User:Slaviclands Focusing on Slavic arts and artist.
 * User:sparkit Focused on the time between the industrial revolution and World War II.
 * User:Solipsist
 * Maria_N Focused on Installation art, New media art and British contemporary artists.
 * User:Ham
 * Richard T. Focused on Paris 1848-1914, Art Theory/Dada/etcaa and ink on paper.
 * User:Philthecow
 * User:Cfitzart especially focused on Art of Australia
 * User:MarcMyWords (kinda new to this, could use some guidance)
 * User:PiCo focused on Art of Australia at the moment
 * Dsmdgold interested in Medieval art especially illuminated manuscripts
 * User:Tyrenius Doing work on contemporary UK art - artists, shows, critics, institutions
 * User:Clubmarx
 * User:Renice
 * User:R.P.D. 19 & 20 European art
 * User:camitava Art in general, Art History, Painting materials and techniques
 * User:Johnbod: Old master prints and printmaking generally, with a historical pov
 * User:TonyTheTiger
 * User:Carptrash Mostly American sculpture - but I want to talk about art stubs - or .  .  . ... To stub or not to stub? That is the question.
 * User:Freshacconci Contemporary art in general, and Canadian art and media and film art in particular, with an interest in Modern Art history (1850-1970) as well.
 * User:Cosmopolitancats Practising artist with particular interest in drawing and sketching and associated media - and the overall organisation of information.
 * User:Planetneutral I'd like to focus on better organization of this project and adding infoboxes to artist entries

Goals

 * 1) To provide a place to discuss common issues on visual arts related pages.
 * 2) To thoroughly explore the visual arts globally and historically.
 * 3) To ensure all pages meet the standards of Cite sources.  Non-referenced articles seem unprofessional and below the standard of even a high school research paper! See also WikiProject Fact and Reference Check.
 * 4) To manage editing of the Art Wikiportal
 * 5) To discuss and categorize project pages.
 * 6) To add articles for the worlds Murals

General strategy and discussion forums

 * /General
 * /Strategy

Infoboxes
Please add them as you find them, using caution, especially with the larger ones, which may disrupt carefully designed pages.
 * Template:Art history
 * Template:Western art history
 * Template:Painting
 * Template:Modernism
 * Template:Usculture
 * Template:Westernart
 * Template:Group of Seven
 * Template:French art history
 * Template:Infobox Artist
 * Template:Infobox Mural
 * Template:Russian art movements
 * Template:Japanese art history


 * Template:Middle Ages Tall (not specific to art)
 * Template:Renaissance (not specific to art)

Userboxes






Stubs








Others

 * '''Link to Visual arts portal


 * Painting/artwork template