Talk:Symbolism

message: See Talk:Symbolism_(arts) for the discussion page for that article, which was moved from here. Michael Hardy 22:12, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The articles Symbolism and Symbolist should be merged (-ist redirecting to -ism), and a disambiguation page should be set up at either Symbolism or Symbolism (disambiguation). The "See also" entries from Symbolism ought to be merged into the dab page, wherever it ends up.
Also, I find it odd that the Symbolist dab page uses symbolism to refer to the Protestant Christian doctrine that rejects transubstantiation, but the article Christian symbolism doesn't really mention this use of the word. How to fix this? --Quuxplusone 06:13, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds dangerously close to original research, if not carefully done. -moritheilTalk 22:55, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Symbolism]] and [[Symbolist]] 

message: ...is incomplete. The definition needs to be finished. For now, I'm inserting an ellipsis (...). —Preceding unsigned comment added by  Video game fan11 (talk • contribs) 04:33, 2 September 2006 
* The full intro has been restored.  It was partially blanked by vandalism. — ERcheck (talk) 05:54, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The first sentence... 

message: Does the word symbolism only refer to representation of something using symbols? Can it be words representing something (like in literature), or is this a different concept (representative realism)? To me, representative realism and symbolism mean the same...?? Swannie 16:38, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As I just stated below, this seems to be a subset of symbolism - the use of symbols that happen to strongly resemble the actual things they refer to. I would have grave misgivings about calling symbolism a separate thing. -moritheilTalk 19:36, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Symbolism only with symbols? 

message: Added this at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Guild_of_Copy_Editors/Requests, as it is in desperate need of cleaning up.  
I would also like to see a section on symbolic confusion included here.  I might add it myself, but I have no academic sources handy for references.  -moritheilTalk 01:27, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Work to be done 

message: Appears to be a vanity edit.  Looking through the logs it has gone unnoticed for quite some time.  Searches reveal no particular academic merit or significance to the phrase "KevinHa" and its only mention on Wikipedia is here. -moritheilTalk 01:30, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for letting us know.-moritheilTalk 19:34, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed reference to "KevinHa" 

message: Restored the old See Also, Further Reading sections.  I know wikia links are hardly the best but we can replace those later; the primary issue here is that the entire link section was deleted and needs to be restored. -moritheilTalk 02:17, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links 

message: "It contrasts with representationalism. Language is highly symbolic, but symbolism refers specifically to totemic symbols that stand on their own. " 
Another editor singled this out above.  Upon further examination, representationalism is a subset of symbolism - the use of symbols that happen to strongly resemble the actual things they refer to.  I would have grave misgivings about calling symbolism a separate thing. -moritheilTalk 19:28, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad opening sentence 

message: It seems to me that if the only source we can find for symbolism is a dictionary then this article is dangerously close to being non-notable and ripe for deletion. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Cottonshirtτ 18:07, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Encyclopedic?