Wikipedia:WikiProject Sculpture

WikiProject Sculpture, a sub-project of WikiProject Visual arts, is a place for Wikipedians to discuss issues and organize information about sculpture. Like any page on Wikipedia, all are welcome to edit and contribute to this WikiProject.

Rather than try to force information to appear in a uniform way, this WikiProject presents guidelines to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. These recommendations for creating Sculpture content are based on various Wikipedia style guides and common practices for writing good articles. Use your own judgment in applying these guidelines, along with other 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.

Feel free to add your name to the participants list and/or add the project userbox User WikiProject Sculpture to your user page.

Scope
The project seeks to improve the quality of articles related to sculpture. Category:Sculpture is the main category for articles within the scope of this project.

Goals

 * 1) To provide a place to discuss common issues on Sculpture related pages.
 * 2) To thoroughly explore Sculpture globally and historically.
 * 3) To ensure all pages meet the standards of Cite sources. See also WikiProject Fact and Reference Check.

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. Take a look at the Open Tasks section of this page for more article-specific tasks.

If you'd like to help with any of the below and want assistance, post a query on the talk page. Project members will be glad to help.

Improve the bird's eye view
The entire subject and Wikipedia's coverage of it is intended to be summarized in the Outline of sculpture. It in turn is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's main contents systems.

Please look it over and fill-in missing topics. If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them.

While analyzing the outline, please answer the following questions (and fix the outline as needed):


 * 1) What's missing?
 * 2) Is the structure of the outline (sections and indents) representative of the subject?
 * 3) Does the outline help understand the relationships between the topics presented in the best way possible?

The overall purpose of the outline is to help readers comprehend the subject by showing what belongs to it, and within the subject what belongs to what.

The outline is a taxonomy of the subject, and also serves as a table of contents and navigation aid to browse Wikipedia's articles (and article sections) about the subject.

It is also a useful tool for the WikiProject to analyze, plan, develop, and revise sculpture-related material. It is a hub from which to organize related topics.

It was built as a "reverse outline", a structural model of an existing work, which in addition to being a summary of the work, can reveal the gaps and other weaknesses for revision purposes.

Please help improve it.

It's our bird's eye view.

Thank you.

Popular pages
Popular pages: A bot-generated list of pageviews, useful for focused cleanup of frequently viewed articles.

Quality operations
Quality operations: A bot-generated detail log for Sculpture articles.

Develop articles

 * Create new articles: A good starting point might be requested sculpture articles.
 * List articles that are needed, but you aren't creating yourself, at requested sculpture articles.
 * If creating pages about sculptors, see Manual of Style (biographies) and WikiProject Biography.
 * Expand stubs:
 * Choose an article from an sculpture stub subcategory and develop it. (See Article development.)
 * Choose an article from an sculptor stub subcategory and develop it. (See Article development.)
 * Check references on sculpture pages.
 * Copy-edit pages. Fix up grammar, spelling, links and the like.

Articles to be created
Requested articles/Culture and fine arts

Articles to be improved

 * History of sculpture

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

Images

 * Upload and add images to sculpture pages. A logical starting point would be the requested art images.
 * Public domain image resources is a great place to start looking for images to add.
 * External links to online galleries/images can also be helpful, especially when free images are not available for upload and copyright violations might be an issue.

Valued images of sculptures at Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Valued_images_of_sculptures

Quality images of sculptures at Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Quality_images_of_sculptures

Wikipedia maintenance

 * Manage infoboxes (Please use these judiciously and be conscientious of page layout.)
 * Add artist infoboxes (this one will do for sculptors too) Infobox Artist
 * Add needs artist infobox to the talk pages of artist entries that lack said infobox.
 * Add sculpture infoboxes Sculpture
 * Check categorization of existing articles and help organize. (See Categorization and Category:Sculpture)
 * Revert vandalism on articles to do with sculpture.
 * Contribute to articles for deletion discussions.
 * Contribute to conversations on articles listed here: Requests for comment/Media, art and literature.

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Participants
It's not necessary to list your name here to edit this page or edit related articles, though we'ld love it if you'ld join us. Feel free to display the project userbox on your userpage: User WikiProject Sculpture, or to add yourself to Category:WikiProject Sculpture participants.

If you do list yourself, please put down your user name and interests - that's it! (And perhaps if you study/have studied art history, or if you have access to one or more sculpture museums for taking Public Domain images).
 * 1) User:Neddyseagoon - talk - Classical sculpture and Renaissance sculpture - any London/UK museums
 * 2) User:Cuprum17 - talk - Modern metal sculpture
 * 3) User:Pamela Gardiner Bronze casting sculpture and glass sculpture, editor of 'real biography' of Rowan Gillespie, and wiki editor.
 * 4) User:carptrash US 19th to mid 20th century and architectural sculpture
 * 5) User:BarkingFish - 20th C. Modern sculpture
 * 6) --- Another Believer ( Talk )
 * 7) – diverse interests but primarily focussed on public sculpture in London
 * 8) - know it when I see it. For past couple of years have "known it" about Camille Claudel, who, in a perfect world, would have entire wikiprojects devoted to various parts of her life. Randy Kryn (talk) 17:16, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
 * 9) SelfieCity on July 31, 2019. General discussions about Wikipedia on the topic.
 * 10) user:19h00s postmodern & contemporary sculpture, art history background, have access to all DC-area museums --19h00s (talk) 23:03, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
 * 11) User:TLarish - talk - Renaissance sculpture
 * 12) User:StarTrekker (talk) - I love classical sculptures★Trekker (talk) 21:15, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

Infoboxes
Please add them as you find them, using caution, especially with the larger ones, which may disrupt carefully designed pages.

General
Not specific to sculpture
 * Modernism
 * Renaissance

Art topics

 * European art history
 * French art history
 * History of art sidebar
 * Japanese art history
 * Russian art movements
 * Western art movements

Sculptors

 * Infobox artist

Sculptures

 * Infobox artwork

Image pages

 * Image information art