Talk:Bookcase

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External links

The external link that I deleted is a commercial seller of bookcases with a small history section that does not contain enough information to merit its inclusion here. Note that at the bottom of that section there is a link back to the Wikipedia bookcase entry, suggesting that the webmaster of that site is aware of the external link (or perhaps responsible for it). For more information on promotional/commercial links in Wikipedia, refer to WP:SPAM. OhNo itsJamie ^Talk 17:51, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Additional Information

I believe the discussion on the bay arrangement could either be rewritten to make it easier picture or even better, a photo provided. I don't believe as many people are familiar with that arrangement compared to the other two arrangements so a photo could help. It took me a second to deduce what it would look like. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.125.100.62 (talk) 00:39, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Spare image

This gould go back in the article if it gets longer; no more pictures are needed at present.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 12:13, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Furniture" vs. "piece of furniture"

Hi,

the short description of this article (and others) seems to use the term "furniture" as a singular noun. Wouldn't it be appropriate to replace it with "piece of furniture" or "item of furniture"? 79.41.80.69 (talk) 15:25, 12 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Short descriptions are, by definition, short. {{ Annotated link | Bookcase }} renders as

Bookcase – Furniture used to store books

which is perfectly understandable, and useful without needing extra words. Just plain Bill (talk) 15:49, 12 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Second Law of Michelson: Something short doesn't become long when you add "piece of" to it :-). Seriously, I was wondering if the sentence wasn't just ungrammatical. 79.41.80.69 (talk) 17:21, 12 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It is not a sentence, but more like a caption or a subtitle, as short descriptions are meant to be. In context as it now stands, it is not confusing. For the kind of technical writing seen in Wikipedia articles, I hew to Strunk's maxim, "Omit needless words." Just plain Bill (talk) 17:46, 12 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I did look at WP:SDESC and it says a short description isn't required to be a definition. But, I hope, it must still be a description. And, given a description Descr for an entity E, I'd expect a sentence like An E is a Descr (or a very similar one) to be correct. Whereas you can't say "a bookcase is a furniture". It seems like, if you omit "piece of", it becomes more of a hint than a description. It's like, for instance, "pop music" would be in the short description of a song. But "pop music" doesn't describe the song. At most it describes its category, or one of its categories. 79.50.205.100 (talk) 07:58, 13 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You can certainly say "a bookcase is furniture".

Short descriptions serve three purposes:

very brief indication of the field covered by the article
short descriptive annotation
disambiguation in searches

"Describing its category" is central to the first and third items above. The only place many readers will see a short description is in annotated "see also" sections, where brevity reduces clutter. Just plain Bill (talk) 17:45, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]