Talk:Artifact

message: Outside of digital imaging, in photography an artifact is something present in a photograph that is a product of the processing method and was not part of the original thing(s) that the photograph is supposed to faithfully reproduce.
This is, in fact, the source of the use of the word "artifact" in digital imageing.  The term was first used many in photochemical photography nearly a century before computers were even invented.
How should the page be modifed to reflect this?
--Prophet121 01:14, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Photographic Meaning of Artifact

message: I removed the bare statement that the word "artifact" was coined by Julian Huxley.  The OED lists a number of usages long before Huxley was born, the earliest being:
 1821 COLERIDGE in Blackw. Mag. X. 256 The conception of all these, as realized in one and the same artéfact, may be fairly entitled, the Ideal of an Ink-stand. 
 1834 COLERIDGE Lit. Rem. III. 347 A lump of sugar of lead lies among other artefacts on the shelf of a collector. 
If he began using the term in a specific way, then perhaps we can discuss that somewhere, or in one of the relevant linked disambiguated meanings. Nandesuka 04:16, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Julian Huxley 

message: This lists a bunch of fields that use the word, but not how they use the word.  So I marked it expand. RJFJR 16:24, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  expand 

message: I removed the two redlinks (to Artifact (philosophy) and artifact (information theory)) when cleaning up the page, since they were at least partially covered by the other links to sites that actually exist. Please comment if you disagree. Norwaystudent 18:02, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleaning up the page 

message: * Removed the following because these are sort of definitions, and not direct links to a single page that one would search for with the keyword "artifact" or "artefact":
** A human-made object, such as a tool, weapon or ornament, especially those of archaeological or historical interest
** A human-made object that is a prototype or standard of measurement
** A structure or feature, visible only as a result of external action or experimental error. Also known as disturbance in biopotential signals
* Moved American and British English spelling differences#Different spellings.2C different connotations to "See also" section
* Created new dab page for Artifacts and moved Artifacts (album), Artifacts (group) and Artifakts (bc) to that page  * Added link to Artifacts under "See also" heading
* Removed the following because there is no specific article on the topic, nor is the topic expanded upon on the Donnie Darko page:
** Artifact, an object responsible for creating a Tangent Universe as described in the fictional book The Philosophy of Time Travel from the film Donnie Darko
* Someone may still want to break the list down into categories, but I was too lazy...
Marchije (talk) 01:08, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Edits made Mar 14 2008

message: Added Cultural artifact.  There is some overlap with Social artifact, but this disambiguation page should contain both terms unless the two terms are merged. Corker1 (talk) 19:29, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Cultural artifact

message: Why does this page use the US spelling rather than the international spelling of artefact? --Duncan (talk) 18:39, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Artifact is by far the more common spelling .  They're both "international".  Artifact is preferred in US, Canadian, and North American-influenced Englishes (Philippine, Okinawan, etc.)  Artefact is preferred in British and most Commonwealth Englishes.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ<  22:16, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why US spelling? 

message: Please see Talk:Artifact (archaeology)#Do artifact and artefact have different meanings? for an overview. The short version is that three runs of sourcing can find no reliable sources in support of this notion.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ<  22:18, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dispelling the idea that ''artifact'' and ''artefact'' have different meanings 

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thread_title:  Move discussion in progress