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A fact from Octagon Chapel, Liverpool appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 July 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the nonconformist liturgy of the Octagon Chapel(pictured) in Liverpool, UK, was criticized by Job Orton: "Grieved I am ... to see such an almost deistical composition"?
Latest comment: 13 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
The illustration of the chapel is not a "pen and ink sketch". It is reproduced from an 1890s publication, which indicates that it is some sort of engraving. The description is wrong on the Commons page, which is currently locked.
Moreover, even if it was a drawing in pen and ink, it ought not be described as a "sketch". I have read that word inappropriately used on Wikipedia to describe everything from the finest and most detailed studies to carefully measured and ruled diagrams. The word "sketch" is onomatopoeic: in other words, if the picture took about 20 seconds to do, and the drawing implement went "scritch-scratch" as it was dome, then, and only then, is the drawing a sketch.
This picture is rather amateurish, but much too careful to be described as a "sketch". Why can't people just use the word "drawing"?
