Talk:Percy Delf Smith

Name

There's going to be debate about what surname name to use for this article. I've seen Delf-Smith, just Percy Smith (the charity in his name is called that) and his full name.

I've decided to go with "Percy Delf Smith" as his book Civic and Memorial Lettering uses "Percy J. Delf Smith R.D.I.", so discarding the initial, as is normal for Wikipedia unless it's needed for disambiguation. I don't think any name is ideal but feel it seems reasonable to respect his preference for how his surname should be written, even if it's awkward that this makes his name a different format to his wife's. Blythwood (talk) 12:20, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 23:30, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

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• ... that Percy Delf Smith's artwork included pictures inspired by his experiences in the First World War trenches and lettering in Roman capitals? Source: Experiences in the First World War: Imperial War Museum, lettering: Nash "Smith’s first published Roman capitals...headed ‘Pen-made Roman capitals founded on second-century incised inscriptions", Delf Smith's book Lettering: a Handbook of Modern Alphabets, page 2, Roman capitals have "content and atmosphere, and good examples convey a sense of stability and satisfaction" (Google Books has snippet view to verify this quote)
  • ALT1: ... that artist Percy Delf Smith's work included lettering using Roman capitals and depictions of the First World War inspired by his experiences in the trenches?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Discharge printing

Created by Blythwood (talk). Self-nominated at 01:22, 26 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Percy Delf Smith; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Approved. Article is new enough and long enough, no eligibility issues, QPQ done. Hook is interesting and cited, article has no major problems or concerns. ––FormalDude (talk) 14:03, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

FormalDude, great, thanks! One minor change I've made, I've come to feel that since a lot of his pictures were imaginative based on his wartime experiences (e.g. the dance of death series) it was better to change it from "of his experiences" to "inspired by his experiences". Hope that's OK, let me know if that's a problem. Blythwood (talk) 17:09, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

Sounds good to me! ––FormalDude (talk) 00:31, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

@Blythwood: On second thought, your reword has made me notice some potential confusion. Right now it could be read as his pictures are inspired by his experiences with lettering in Roman capitals, whereas I took your intended meaning to be that his pictures include lettering in Roman capitals. Similar problem with the original wording too. Luckily I think it's an easy fix by changing it to something like "... that Percy Delf Smith's artwork included pictures inspired by his experiences in the First World War trenches and pictures of lettering in Roman capitals?". Though it may be best to not combine the two at all, and just choose to mention the WW1 inspired pictures as that seems likely to be the more interesting of the two. Let me know what you think. ––FormalDude (talk) 02:43, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

FormalDude, that's fair. I've reordered it to more clearly separate the two points (when I said lettering I meant what we'd now call graphic design, as in he'd design you a memorial plaque or clockface, rather than what we'd consider fine art). And added a lot more pictures to clarify. Blythwood (talk)

Thanks. ALT1 looks good. ––FormalDude (talk) 02:13, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

Great! Blythwood (talk) 21:59, 7 September 2023 (UTC)