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)