Talk:Calligraphy

"Celtic Fringe" is derogatory term

In relation to items such as the Book of Kells, reference is made to the Celtic fringe. Many consider this term to be derogatory, as is mentioned in the article on Celtic nations. This term is often used to imply that the concerns of these peoples can be dismissed as being as politically peripheral as the regions they inhabit are geographically peripheral relative to the European landmass - a patently absurd and offensive equation.

Sorry if this seems nit-picking but what would be an appropriate temr with which to replace it? "Celtic nations"? The "insular Celts"?

User:pclive 13:06, 21 June 2006 (BST)

British Isles

I have changed the phrase "in what is now the British Isles and Ireland" in the Western section to say just "the British Isles". This is a geographic, not a political designation. The British Isles have become the British Isles on geological, not historical, timescales, so using the term "in what is now" is inappropriate in the context of this article. Distinguishing Ireland from the rest of the British Isles when talking about geography rather than politics is a misleading and inaccurate neologism that has arisen through a combination of casual misinformation and misguided partisan zeal. ≈ pclive ≈ you aren't being clear on why you changed it. please make your explanation more accessible, or revert the article.

Armenian Calligraphy

I'm still new to the Wikipedia editing scene, but if somebody could, I think adding a section about Armenian calligraphy would be a great edition.

Post-2023 clean up

Hello there, I made a writing push few years back expanding Western and East Asian calligraphies section. Since then the article got enriched with a lot of diverse traditions, which is nice. But this article has also degraded : fragmatation, over illustration, lack of overall organisation. I moved away from this field and can only do few minor edits as I did today, but this beautiful article is in need of an overall rewrite and clean up. May I suggest the following axis of improvements with the example of well documented East Asian calligraphy :

• Top level section for major tradition. Then level 2 === sections :
  • 0) Overview: few phrases
  • a) Evolution/History: main content.
  • b) Technique/Tools: basics on tools, their uses ; optional illusatration(s).
  • c) Styles : major variations such as cursive, regular, etc.
  • d) Influences/Schools/Traditions : groups the root tradition (Chinese) and other traditions. Mentions briefly Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Mongol with their respective differences.
• Illustrations : limit to 3 per gallery. Keep it minimal since we have 6 major tradition and ~20 national traditions to document.
• Move around: Vietnam should be with Eastern Asian group, in it's "Influences/Schools/Traditions" sub-section. Philippine in South Asia group. Eastern Europe could be into Western's "Influences/Schools/Traditions" sub-section. Yug (talk) 🐲 16:10, 31 January 2024 (UTC)