Talk:Painterwork

This article was nominated for deletion on April 6, 2006. The result of the discussion was keep, no consensus.

Cleanup and update[edit]

This article, if kept, should certainly be updated. The entire lead section can be deleted, with any useful information moved to Lead paint and updated with health considerations and given a new intro to indicate the dates lead paint was common; this is an historical item. The rest is about various techniques and would serve as a good overview parent article. One puppy's opinion. I will do as much of the necessary work as possible, but am not interested in putting forth the effort until the Afd is completed. KillerChihuahua^?!? 11:16, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Painterwork is meaningless[edit]

I paint pictures. I don't do painterwork. The information here is more appropriate to a article on artists materials, media and methods which should be linked. It should also include information about acrylic paints, encaustics, tempera paint, watercolors, etc. (JK) 7/06

Kill, fix or preserve?[edit]

This is a 100 year old article on "painterwork", a vocation that hardly exists any more. House painters no longer deal so directly with constituent ingredients, artists do, but in a rather more precise manner.

So what's to do with this? As it stands, this article just doesn't fit. We would appear to have three options:

Delete it. It doesn't belong here. See buggy whip.
Fix it. Re-write it, probably by merging all of it away elsewhere, and provide contemporary encyclopedic reference material on "painting" as it is practised today, probably under separate broad topics of "paint manufacture" and "painting".
Preserve it. Write an intro, maybe re-title it, to "Painterwork in 1911" (or similar). It's an interesting and notable topic for those interested in old skills, materials and techniques.

Your thoughts? Andy Dingley (talk) 12:44, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There has not been much activity here, but I'm going with 'delete' and will redirect this article to House painter and decorator. The content is largely already covered by better referenced articles, and the entirety of content here is drawn from the 1911 Britannica, which I've preserved as a ref in that target article, for those interested in historical practice / skills.Dialectric (talk) 01:19, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Painterwork[edit]

The present-day use of the word "Painterwork" seems to be confined to Scotland, as a variant of "Paintwork". I've added a hatnote to direct any enquirers to Paint. The historical information on particular types of paint and techniques would be best distributed among the relevant articles, with appropriate caveats: Noyster (talk), 12:24, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]