Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sculpture/Boston
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edit@Bri, Randy Kryn, SounderBruce, Phoebe, and Thsmi002: Hello! Just an FYI, I'm creating a list of public artworks in Boston ahead of the upcoming WikiConference North America, using the Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" website and others. Surprisingly, there were only 6 Wikipedia articles about outdoor sculptures in Boston, before this month. If you have any interest in helping to create new articles about public art and monuments, feel free!
Either way, hope to see you in Boston! ---Another Believer (Talk) 18:20, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
- @Randy Kryn: Since you're following along at least a bit, just FYI, I plan to create a separate page for sculptures in Cambridge at Wikipedia:WikiProject Sculpture/Cambridge, Massachusetts soon. ---Another Believer (Talk) 19:27, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks. You've put up some good pages lately, and am sure you'll do Cambridge justice (the John Harvard statue immediately comes to mind). I pick up on your new additions when they're added to the template, and usually take a look when I notice them. A lot of good artwork in Boston, the Fine Arts Museum not at the top but one of America's best. Randy Kryn (talk) 01:45, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
Hola, folk who are working on this.
I've been working on mid-to-late 20th c artists in America, which I'm finding rather a thankless task, as many of these fall in the trough between "dead and their works are out of copyright" and "tech savvy, and they've got a publicist working on their page." Art without pictures is... not very interesting.
In any case, I bumped into the lists of Public Art for Philadelphia, Washington, and Boston as I was doing this, and Boston's seemed a touch... anemic. So I've been working on upgrading the current list to a fatter, more sortable list. Are there objections to this? I'd be most curious to know before I spend a morning scratching fussily through all the references... Thanks, Sicklemoon (talk) 15:12, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
- Sicklemoon, Hello! I've used this space the most as a survey of public art in Boston. I created many stubs around a recent visit to Greater Boston and look forward to seeing your work in this area. If you're not familiar, you might look at List of public art in Westminster and other London public art lists. You might also share your thoughts at Talk:List of public art in Boston, which will be seen by more people than this page. ---Another Believer (Talk) 15:18, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Hola! I went through and updated the main public list. It occurs to me that this is an... outdoor sculpture page, really, with a few funny exceptions. Also, it hasn't been updated in awhile. Is there any automated way to capture new sculptures that are already on Wikipedia? Having the list sortable is useful. So--what are the odds that the work I've done is not WP acceptable? I ask as a new editor--it seemed like a task that needed doing. This thought only came as I was far along in the task, so I figured... I'd ask you.
Sicklemoon (talk) 19:29, 22 April 2020 (UTC)