Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Stagecraft/Archive 1

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Not too good at the ol' wikipedia, but i work in the theatre industry every day. Hope i didn't do anything wrong, and i hope that this is where i'm supposed to put this. Anyways, i can assist in any way possible. I am the Regional Outside Sales Rep for the largest ETC Dealer on the Gulf Coast. Let me know how i can help. --Tegsirat 03:02, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, a first good step is to always sign your comments on talk pages with ~~~~. That way people know who left the comment and when. Welcome aboard! --Lekogm 13:45, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Photos on stagecraft pages

I got a few photos of lighting instruments and some other stuff, see them here and some of them need cropping, etc. Is there anything else needing a/better photos because I can probably get it soon. KeepOnTruckin 23:20, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Talk

Ok, there are a few of us who are technically stagehands but would prefer to be called theatrical technicians. see Category:Wikipedian theatre technicians We have a userbox: {{User:KeepOnTruckin/Userbox/User theatre tech}}

This user does something related to stagecraft and is a theatrical technician.Techie

. Good job on making a stage craft ( prefer the term Tech Theatre) catgory. May I suggest a different image for our stub and a link on the stub to the category? KeepOnTruckin 20:24, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

A better image for the stub is fine with me. I just pretty much made this project on a whim after looking at several different articles which could fall under a project like this and, frankly, need some help. When more people join we should all discuss the name of this project and then once a consenus is reached go with that. I also apparently skipped a step on the stub creation and will correct this as soon as I get out of my show tonight.Lekogm 21:34, 6 September 2006 (UTC) ory: Forgot to mention our category: Category:Wikipedian theatre technicians KeepOnTruckin 22:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm new to wikipedia editing, but I'd be interested in helping with this project. I think the biggest difficulty I see is the huge range of titles/job descriptions required to cover the full range of technical theater from low-budget community and store-front theater up to full blown Broadway and Touring shows. Morydd 03:50, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree that there is a huge range of titles and job descriptions that one can have for a show. That is why I feel that if this project grows and we find all articles that can and do relate to this project, we as a group can come make a decision about what to list. We can also make sections on each article page about what things might be called in other countries, regions, and what have you after a general consensus is given about the name. Also thank you for your interest in this project, the more more help the better as there are most likely hundreds of articles out there, I have added you to the members section. I too am new to wikipedia editing and have already made a few mistakes. But hopefully we will all learn from our mistakes, and people that have been here longer will be join and they can teach us all some more about editing.Lekogm 21:28, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm also willing to help with this. Please bear in mind that I will attempt to add a bit of non-US perspective to this, as I'm from the UK. 22:13, 7 September 2006 (UTC) Bryson430 16:26, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

I don't have a tremendous ammount of time, but I'll help with what I can.... I've created a category to list the pages which carry the WikiProject Stagecraft template. Hopefully that will help by preventing pages from getting lost when people add the template but forget to update the project page. Happy-melon 09:34, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

I am a Lighting Design student, but am only in my first year so I don't have that much information about careers, but I have experience with much of the equipment. I also work for a summer educational thetre program. I can usually get images, as I am in the theatre most days. --JWGreen 19:14, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

First step

Ok, so what do we all think the first step should be? I think we should come to some sort of agreement on what to do first and then do a big push. Any thoughts? --Lekogm 18:32, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

I have downsized the list of open tasks on the project page to reflect projects that are already active or that I felt are easy to create. If anyone has any other projects they're working on or are looking for something to do, let's start with those. I'll make a better todo list or something later today.--Lekogm 17:05, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Images on Stagecraft tags

As I mentioned above, I think we should have an/different image(s) on the the stagecraft tag as well as the stub tag. I was thinking the [image of Source Four]like on the technical theatre userbox.

I don't see what not. Unless someone has a better suited image or different images we should just use that for the banner. For the stub something in the style of the comedy and tragedy masks would be better. Maybe a small rendering of something? --Lekogm 02:27, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

The masks are in use in the theater stub, if I remember correctly. Let's not be ambiguous with an image that is similar. 48v 20:14, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

They are in use with the theater stub, I just came up with something really fast and used that image. I wasn't trying to suggest that we used the masks, I was suggesting we use something in the style of that graphic. I don't think a picture would be good for a stub.

I think an image would be good on the stub tag so it will catch prospective editor's eyes. I suppose it should be different from the stagecraft tag however. I don't think the masks would be good. Any other suggestions? KeepOnTruckin 20:45, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Unless anyone objects and/or has something better, I'm going to insert the picture of the source four into our banner. Let's all look for or create a small picture for the stub and we'll add it to that. --Lekogm 02:43, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps a drafting symbol of a lighting instrument for the stub. I think it would work well with minimal color, recognizeable even quite small, and unique to stagecraft. --Morydd 14:55, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Good idea. Anyone have an image available? From a CAD sofrtware or something? 48v 21:00, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Will this one work? It isn't the greates quality, but it's all I could find. --JWGreen 19:10, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Looks good to me. What does everyone else think?

I'd say it's good for now. But I'd suggest everyone keep their eyes on the lookout for lighting symbols in general for future articles. --Lekogm 23:11, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

FYI: I have changed the image on the stub to reflect the one posted above. Have a good day! --23:39, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Banner Image

Whats the deal with the new tag image? I liked the old one and this new one makes me think of a project on tools rather than stagecraft. KeepOnTruckin 00:55, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

The old one made me think more of lighting than anything else. I felt that with an image of a wrench and a screwdiver, things we all use, it might look to be than just lighting. Feel free to change it back if you want, I just wish we had an image that covered like... everything. --Lekogm 01:09, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Key articles for Wikipedia 1.0

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Nominations of Stagecraft Articles

I would nominate the Stage lighting instrument article as well as the Stage lighting article. --KeepOnTruckin 01:34, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Glad to list them, but a few questions. The Stage lighting instrument article has a stub template on the bottom. I'm not sure if that's supposed to mean that the whole article is a stub (which it clearly isn't) or whether it's referring to that specific section. And I'm not sure whether you're referring to them on the basis of their quality or their importance or both. It would be really essential to know, particularly as there is a (slight) chance in the near future we (me) might try to get at least members of various groups together to work on articles which are of "top" importance to at least one of them. So please indicate which articles (or even stubs) you consider to be of "top" importance and highest quality separately. Thanks again. Badbilltucker2 16:14, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Open Task Discussion

The following is a list of open tasks taken from the project page and may have a little more in depth details about the article and its progress.

Theater Personnel

During disucssions over merging stagehand and theatrical technician have come to discussing setting it up like stage lighting instrument and having a description and then links to individual articles. Thoughts? --Lekogm 17:26, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Personally, I'm strongly opposed to having parts of the decription in two seperate places. Either the articles should be deleted in favor of a list of shorter description, or it should be a lits of liks (maybe a category?) It would be smart (imho) to discuss some thing applicable to all types of stagehands in the article. 48v 23:45, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

The reason why I favor the description is because if someone comes and looks at just a list they're going to have to read a lot of articles to see who builds a chair when they could just see something that says like, "Props carpenter: Builds furniture and small things used by the actors in the course of the show." Or something like that because otherwise you read an article about carpenters that doesn't even mention props. --Lekogm 23:55, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Stagehand and Theatrical Technician Merger

So on the stagehand article page, I posted how I am interested in merging Theatrical Technician with it and am talking about how IATSE determines postions and whatnot. How do we want to classify positions for the "backstage crew" of shows? Should they be called stagehands or should they be called something else? --Lekogm 03:06, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

On the talk page for stagehand I just posted about merging both articles with list of theatre personnel and then editing that to include all postions, anyone not involved in this discussion want to weigh in?--Lekogm 19:47, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

On the article pages, I have changed the mergeto and mergefrom templates to reflect merging Stagehand with Theatrical Technician which seems to be the consensus. --Lekogm 17:26, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Running crew

I would say we should evaluate how complete this article currently is and then merge it into List of theatre personnel. Thoughts? --Lekogm 17:26, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

It seems that we have lots of little pages about cirtain types of people. If you merge these many people into the one article (List of theatre personel) then that page is going to be extremly long. I am not in favor of having a long page/list of people working in a theatre, espescially if we merge all the little articles into the one big areticle and get rid of the rest. That would be like taking the stage lighting instruments page and not having any links to the main article on each type of instrument. Again I'd say make it like the SLI article. Leave each little page about personell like it is, except for the ones that we are discussing merging, i.e, Theatrical Tech and Stage hand, ME and Electrician (theatre) etc. etc. SOrry if thats a bit confusing. KeepOnTruckin 03:19, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Electrician (theater)

Should be created to include all positions covered by the electrics department: ME, AME, Board Op, Followspot Operator, Deck Electrician.

Master electrician

Should be merged into Electrician (theater)

Carpenter (theater)

Should be updated to include all carpentry positions as listed in theatrical technician, stagehand, running crew, and/or list of theatre personnel.

Source four

Probably needs cleanup. Made it in two hours.

If someone could find a better way to explain the reflector, that would be great JWGreen 18:59, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

I will make an attempt. Plus today I will try to get a picture of the reflector. KeepOnTruckin 04:17, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Well I've made an effort to make the reflector explanation a bit less technical... how does it sound? Happy-melon 18:07, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Stage lighting instrument and Lighting fixture merger

Luminaire redirects to Lighting fixture, which is really a crap page. I don't even think it needs to be merged, just the redirect fixed to point all links to Stage Lighting Instrument. (Which IMHO should be plural, don't know why someone changed it). I esp. say delete it b/c it creates confusion with Light fixture which are the normal type of light. BTW, that page has the link set to SLI not Lighting fixture. So, does anyone think there is anything worth keeping on the Lighting fixture page? KeepOnTruckin 03:30, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

I'd say trash lighting fixture. There's no useful information on it. I also would support a rename for the SLI page to "Stage Lighting Instruments" as it should be plural. --Lekogm 04:13, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

It's done. Renaming Stage lighting instrument to Stage lighting instruments is prohibited by the Manual of Style. Sorry to rain on your parade... Happy-melon 18:18, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Actually I think it is allowed due to the fact that it's talking about more than just a singular stage lighting instrument. See Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions/archive5#SOME article titles should be plural for more info. --Lekogm 22:54, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Breakdown

Moved to Wikipedia:WikiProject Stagecraft/Breakdown as originally intended. Thanks Lekogm Morydd 20:55, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Intelligent lighting merge and rewrite proposal

Ok, I'd like to propose that the article that is currently written there be merged into SLI and that Intelligent lighting be written to include moving lights, scrollers, color faders, amd other things that are data controlled. I thought I would post this here first to test the water before I post it on the actual talk/article page for those articles, who's got comments? --Lekogm 23:37, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Don't know what to say. IL is not like the respt of the pages on types of lights. But SLI already has a little bit on IL with a link to the main article. I don't see whats wrong with it. KeepOnTruckin 02:46, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

I don't have a problem with adding scrolers, colour faders etc to the Intelligent lighting article, but I would strongly oppose merging the existing article with SLI. The text of Intelligent lighting has been merged from three separate sources already. The purpose of SLI (as I understand it) is to provide a summary of each type of light which is expanded upon in the main article. Incorporating the substantial body of text which currently resides in Intelligent Lighting will skew the balance of SLI agianst 'dumb' fixtures; losing most of the IL text in the transition destroys a lot of good material (and I can say that without any blushing because I merely assembled it). Add information to Intelligent Lighting about other data-based lighting instruments if you wish (indeed I'll help you do it!), but I would fiercely oppose a complete merger. Happy-melon 20:16, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

New Project Specific Sub Pages

Now that we're getting rolling our talk page will be, and is, overflowing with discussions about this project. Therefore, I have created subpages for individual areas to discuss work on articles in those area. They are: lighting, audio, carps, and props. I think that any new discussions, after Monday September 25, 2006, on these topics should be on those pages, so as to keep it a little more organized. I have also created a general discussion page to discuss strategy, article assessment, collaborative efforts and general chatter. If people want to discuss changes to the main article page or templates than I would say that that can go on this page. Thoughts? --Lekogm 02:14, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Remember to add these pages to your watchlist. -JWGreen 15:56, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Project Banner

So lately I've been looking at other projects banners for talk pages. Right now I'm really liking the Wikipedia:Wikiproject Novels banner. It includes the assessment rating, an importance rating, and a list of tasks that need to be done project wide. I think I'm going to try and make something similar to that for our banner. Anyone have any thoughts on things for a revised banner? Lekogm 16:00, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

The project banner now has a quality rating as well as an importance rating. --Lekogm 13:34, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

October Roll call

Heya, I don't know how many people actually are watching the subpages so I thought I'd post this here as I'm going to update members to to participants and have it reflect active and inactive participants. I just wanted to do a quick roll call and see who's active and what they're currently working on. I'm working on project specific items such as our banner, {{WikiProject Stagecraft}}, and creating a sub page for assessment. Next I'll probaly start on some infoboxes, specificly one to map a production trail, and some other templates. If anyone has any comments/suggestions for anything like that just leave a message on my talk page and I'll be sure to do my best to incorporate them into what I'm doing. On a personal note, there are a ton of people up on the roof above my head and they woke me up 2 hours before I would normaly get up. I have the biggest headache right now that I can remember having in awhile. --Lekogm 13:57, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm in. I've started a jargon page in my personal space, haven't gotten very far with it so far. I'll have a good chunk of time to work on it next week I think and get it to the point where it can (if people think it's appropriate) go live. I'm still pretty new to the whole editing concept, so I'm a little overwhelmed with the choices. If there's something we'd like to see done, let me know and I'll go for it. Morydd 21:29, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Venues

User:Morydd had made a brief mention of covering venues in this project. I was just wondering if we should persue that. Talk amongst yourselves. --Lekogm 02:16, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Lets do it now. (My answer to everything) KeepOnTruckin 02:29, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

It's been four days since I asked this question. Does anyone else want to weigh in on this or should I just assume people either agree or don't care? --Lekogm 18:30, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Sports venues have articles, so the only problem I see with starting venue articles is that there are so many theatres and how would you define notability... is a community theatre notable? a college theatre? Regional Performing Arts Center? If we can define what is notable and what is not so we don't have a never ending list, I think it is good idea. -JWGreen 22:01, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

I think that it should be limited to regional theaters and roadhouses. --Lekogm 00:19, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

In that case, I say we go for it. -JWGreen 16:13, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

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