Wikidata:Property proposal/creator's signature
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creator's signature
[edit]Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Creative work
Motivation
[edit]An image of a painter's signature on a work can make it easier to compare them with signatures of the same painter on other paintings. I don't think the existing signature (P109) would be suitable as it's meant for items about people and its definition of "signature" somewhat differs.
Proposal following discussion with Jane023 at Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings#Artist's signature on painting. Please add more samples (Add your motivation for this property here.) --- Jura 07:28, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
- @Sailko: it seems that many images are uploaded by you. --- Jura 06:11, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
Discussion
[edit]- Support Looks like you could populate some painting items from this book (if it states which signatures go with which painting) c:Category:Painters and their works- a dictionary of great artists who are not now alive, giving their names, lives, and the prices paid for their works at auctions (1896). Jane023 (talk) 09:41, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
- Comment Ideally I'd prefer to see depicts (P180) = signature (Q1373131) used with qualifier relative position within image (P2677), rather than the creation of lots of hard-extracted images for the details. Jheald (talk) 22:03, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
- One downside to that approach: Sometimes sources blow up the signature but have the painting as a whole at a resolution where the signature by itself is not clearly visible. Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:35, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
- Support I always try to make a detail of the signature, if I spot. Would be nice to have a field to link that in Wikidata --Sailko (talk) 06:57, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
- Comment Would this result in infobox clutter? It would also likely result in more cluttered Commons categories, as conceivably every distinct painting could have its own accompanying cropped signature file. -Animalparty (talk) 04:49, 2 November 2019 (UTC)