Talk:Salon (gathering)

message: There is historical and literary evidence pointing to the existence of salon like gatherings also existing in Middle Eastern cultures, from the high 'bbasid caliphate up to Ottoman Turkey. In the Abbasid era, in particular, one finds a few aristocratic female hostesses, much as with later French salons in Europe. So too in Andalusia, which is essentially southern Spain, but at the time was under heavy Arab hegemony under the Moorish dynasties. Would it be inappropriate to at least enclose a small section on salons or a salon like gatherings outside of the Western and European spear? And in particular the Middle East? 65.28.244.221 (talk) 02:28, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Middle Eastern Equivalents 

message: *Support - <"2 Historiography of the salons" section shares its content with almost the entire of "Salon (France)" article > Willman85 (talk) 15:19, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal

message: Um there is no support for the invention of the Salon being Chinese in origin. No citation. Can't find anything on the web which isn't ripped from the wiki entry either.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.210.9.106 (talk) 13:47, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: more stuff

message: It is hoped that the apparently "obvious" chance of dividing these two inter-related cultural themes into separate entries can be resisted. --Wetman 22:54, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stuff 

message: And where are the references to the "quite recent"s, presumably at least post-war? 72.228.150.44 (talk) 03:24, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Well Whahappen? 

message: I restored the lead and the overview to the 20 March 2018 versions, corrected the titles of some references, and added an Advert tag to the section "Modern-day salons", for the following reasons.  Since 1 Feb 2018, there has been quite a bit of content added relating to Pin Drop Studio, including an entire new section that focuses exclusively on that studio, plus a photo of the studio added to the History section (where it doesn't belong).  Also, some of the associated references had the words "Pin Drop" added to the titles when those words do not appear in the actual titles of the cited articles.  Also, while the cited articles mention a variety of salon-type establishments in London, the text here focuses only on Pin Drop.  Also, a sentence in the lead said that there are modern-day salons worldwide, but the cited article mentions only London establishments.  In my opinion, this raises the question of whether some of the text added since 1 Feb 2018 is promotional in nature (see WP:PROMO and WP:SPAM).  My suggestion is that if this article is to include a section on "Modern-day salons", it should include more than just one establishment, for example, it could mention of some of the other London salons that are in the cited articles (and perhaps the name of an establishment is enough, rather than going into details about their events), and, in that case, 21st-century salons in other parts of the world should be included as well (for example, Red Room Taipei). There is also a question about scope.  Clearly, prior to March 2018, the scope of this article was the historical salon tradition from the 16th to early 20th centuries.  Several edits introduced after 1 Feb 2018 changed the scope of the article to include modern-day salons.  Is that change in scope appropriate for this article?  If so, should we then also include some mention of the many arts, literary, and philosophy Meetup groups all over the world?  Or is this article just about salons in the historical tradition?  Where do we draw the line?  -- HLachman (talk) 01:17, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern-day salons 

message: I was wondering why there are no parallels drawn to the Ancient Greek symposium. They seem very similar to me and I would be surprised if the salon developed independently. Leonffs (talk) 23:38, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Development from symposium?