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Template talk:Artwork

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::But in the example “The Title of the Picture” won't be boldfaced but italicised! Therefore the documentation should perhaps be corrected. Anyway we could even consider to add an optional parameter for an original titel if known (probably only titles given by the artist himself should be permitted) similar to the parameter title_orig in [[:en:Template:Infobox book]] or the parameter ORIGINALTITEL in [[:de:Vorlage:Textdaten]] with one of the outputs the undetermined documentation proposes. --[[User:Marsupium|Marsupium]] ([[User talk:Marsupium|talk]]) 02:53, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

::But in the example “The Title of the Picture” won't be boldfaced but italicised! Therefore the documentation should perhaps be corrected. Anyway we could even consider to add an optional parameter for an original titel if known (probably only titles given by the artist himself should be permitted) similar to the parameter title_orig in [[:en:Template:Infobox book]] or the parameter ORIGINALTITEL in [[:de:Vorlage:Textdaten]] with one of the outputs the undetermined documentation proposes. --[[User:Marsupium|Marsupium]] ([[User talk:Marsupium|talk]]) 02:53, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

:::In many languages, it is customary to add italics to titles. I think adding boldface as well looks slightly better. It is true that usage may vary across languages, and that it is not always clear what the "title" of an artworks means (given by the artist, used by all art historians ? or just used in the museum's database ?). {{tl|Title}} tries to deal with those points. --[[User:Zolo|Zolo]] ([[User talk:Zolo|talk]]) 11:07, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

:::In many languages, it is customary to add italics to titles. I think adding boldface as well looks slightly better. It is true that usage may vary across languages, and that it is not always clear what the "title" of an artworks means (given by the artist, used by all art historians ? or just used in the museum's database ?). {{tl|Title}} tries to deal with those points. --[[User:Zolo|Zolo]] ([[User talk:Zolo|talk]]) 11:07, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

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::::I guess the Wikipedia Manual of Style dictates the use for all of Wikimedia, which says: [[:en:MOS:ITALIC|''Italic type should be used for the following names and titles: … Works of art and artifice … Paintings, sculptures and other works of visual art'']]
It would be a good idea to strive for a consistent style and describe explicity the formatting of the parameter descriptions, if they deviate from plain (un-italicized, un-bolded) formatting, and also actually format the example texts themselves to reduce contradictions and confusion. Note that even the ''Mona Lisa''-example further down the guide doesn't italicize '''or''' embolden the titles.
I have also noticed that some titles of portraits include the year when the person lived, in parenthesis, also italicized, like in [[:File:1stLordClifford.jpg]]. The original title probably doesn't include these numbers, so should they be just erased? ~ [[User:Nelg|Nelg]] ([[User talk:Nelg|talk]]) 15:19, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

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