Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New Zealand/Requested articles/Craft

Dowse project
Would it be worthwhile to mention the Dowse summer project, the User names of the editors, and a link to the blog post? Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 23:20, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Exhibitions
I was asked about exhibitions. I'd advise starting with Te Maori. There are a bunch of articles on exhibitions (see Category:Art_exhibitions_in_the_United_States), but I'm not aware of any exemplars. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:47, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

Awards pages
I'm going to have a go this weekend to adding the Arts Foundation recipients to this page Arts_Foundation_of_New_Zealand


 * excellent idea. Much of that text on that article needs to be rewritten, since their press people wrote it, alas. Stuartyeates (talk) 03:24, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Can't face rewriting the page, but lists in now for Laureates and New Generation awards. Only Laureates linked.

Next: Te Waka Toi awards. Any advice whether I should add these to the Creative New Zealand page, or start a new one?Auchmill (talk) 04:43, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
 * The easiest thing to do is start on Creative New Zealand and the break it out if it becomes cumbersome. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:09, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

List of Art Museums in New Zealand
I generated List_of_libraries_in_New_Zealand from a this dataset. If someone can get me the organisational data behind this website I can knock together a List of Art Museums in New Zealand too. This then gives us somewhere to link to for all the galleries and museums we're mentioning. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:27, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

"Women" artists
I just undid an edit to the Bronwynne Cornish page where the category tag 'New Zealand artists' was removed in favour of 'New Zealand women artists'. Following the controversy around 'American novelists' and 'American women novelists' I agree that segregating women by gender (I differentiate this from discussions of the women's art movement) is not a useful way of placing them in our art history. Does any else have thoughts on this?Auchmill (talk) 01:13, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Bronwynne Cornish is already in the Category:New Zealand potters and Category:New Zealand ceramists subcats of Category:New Zealand artists, which is why she was removed; the addition of Category:New Zealand women artists was almost certainly a separate thing that just happened to be the in the same edit. The 'American novelists' and 'American women novelists' issue was a complete misunderstanding of wikipedia by non-wikipedians. The appropriate guideline is Categorization/Ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality, which says that all people in Category:American women novelists have to be in Category:American novelists or one of it's sub-categories. If you don't categorise by gender and/or ethnicity, another editor (who may or may not be being as careful as you might be) will, eventually. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:58, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

referencing tip
In Bronwynne Cornish, the many references different page numbers of the same book can be collapsed using Rp. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:22, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Italics for exhibitions and artworks
I've added a mention of the Wikipedia Manual of Style/Visual Arts to the page, which notes that titles or artworks are generally italicised (with noted exceptions). The Manual of Style on Titles recommends exhibition names are also italicised. For entries about exhibitions, put the template italic title at the start to make the title italic. On my next pass through the entries we've done so far I'll add italics where needed. Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 10:40, 22 December 2014 (UTC)