Talk:Faience

message: Could someone familiar with the conventional English pronunciation of Faience please insert an IPA entry? --Dan Ventresca 20:51, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  IPA entry? 

message: I have explained the rationale for this proposal under Maiolica.    Marshall46 15:21, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: A better suggestion, which I've copied from Talk:Maiolica: create an article Tin-glazed pottery. Draw together succinct versions of the current maiolica, majolica, faience etc etc, each précis with the usual italicised hatnote Main article.... Final step, an introduction concerning general historical developments and techniques, (i.e. a condensed version of the article tin-glazing). The reasons for separate articles on maiolica and faience will appear from a first scan of the two, distinct relevant literatures. Nested articles, such as these could be, are at the heart of encyclopedic treatment.--Wetman 21:53, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have now done this Marshall46 17:01, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger proposal

message: This article appears to have been drawn from authoritative sources but they are not shown.  Marshall46 16:46, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: Shouldn't this article be faïence and faience redirect there? Or is this the more correct spelling? Graham (talk, contrib, SIGN HERE!!!) 19:21, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Actual name

message: In his book The Life of Greece (p.219), Will Durant says that the ancient Greek colony of Naucratis (located in the Nile delta of Egypt) "...exported faience and translucent glass." Durant does not give any further details, but the quote is taken from a section of the book entitled Aegean Prelude:3500-1000 B.C. Wikipedia's article on Naucratis indicates that it was founded (or taken over by Greeks) shortly after 750 B.C., and that archaeological expeditions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries "unearthed a small factory for faience scarab seals" in the city. Does anyone have any more detailed information about Naucratis' production of faience or how closely what was produced there fits the definition of faience?
Dadadaddyo (talk) 19:52, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ancient Greek Faience 

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message: As this is English Wikipedia, our articles discuss subjects known by titles that by English speakers are understood to denote those subjects. This article was getting into the weeds, focusing on the word itself, and concerning itself with what may or may not be considered "faience" in other languages. I've done some editing to address that.
It seemed similar to someone expounding in the Dogue article on French Wikipedia about breeds of dog that aren't considered dogues in French, and adding that though, in English, they're considered dogs, they are indeed not dogues. Just as what English speakers call "dogs" is irrelevant to French Wikipedia readers reading about dogues, its irrelevant to us what things might be covered in other languages by the meaning of a word cognate to "faience". This article should be about the subject denoted by the English word. Largoplazo (talk) 01:37, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I've reverted your bold but doomed attempt to remove all the inevitable confusing complexity of the term in English.  It's not about what other languages do, but what English does. Faience is "fine tin-glazed pottery", but randomly the most important types of this are not called "faience" in English, and some other types of pottery that aren't fine tin-glazed pottery at all are called faience in English.  This is messy and there's no getting round it.   Johnbod (talk) 03:01, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sticking to what faience is as that term is used in English