User talk:Neoclassicism Enthusiast

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Equinox ◑ 14:19, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Oh thank you! I really enjoy editing here!--Neoclassicism Enthusiast (talk) 14:22, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Neoclassical images

Images depicting words should be modern by default. An image like the one you added to manuscript is fine, but please not replace modern images that concord with how most native speakers imagine an object with a neoclassical or premodern example, as you did at microscope. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 04:10, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

It's not just the era that matters. Common utilitarian items should have common, utilitarian images. This is a dictionary. The purpose of images is to reinforce the definitions by showing a typical example, not to expose readers to fine art. If something is typically decorative or ornate, there's no harm in having a decorative or ornate image. What you have to watch out for, though, is art that's so out of the ordinary that it doesn't accurately portray the other 99.9999 percent of what its subject can look like.

To put it another way: Duchamp's "Fountain" is a work by an important artist, but that doesn't mean it should be displayed in the entry for "fountain". Chuck Entz (talk) 15:16, 30 April 2020 (UTC)