Talk:Geobrush achievement

Proposal discussion

• Needs work: I really like the concept, and I wonder why we haven't had that idea earlier. But can we use a name which the majority of us won't need to look up in the Encyclopedia of Local Artists of Offshore Countries aka Wikipedia? I mean, we do have the Bill Gates achievement, which is also named after a human, but that's another league of fame. I'm thinking of a more general name such as Geobrush achievement, Ceci n'est pas un hashpoint achievement or simply Visual Artist achievement. --Calamus 04:10, 12 January 2014 (EST)

• I support this achievement, because I like the idea and I think there is a lot of potential for even non-artists (like me) to come up with a collage, say, made of materials found at the hashpoint. I shall add it to my list of things to do this summer. But like Calamus above, the name means absolutely nothing to me and I would prefer a more general one which communicates the idea of the achievement better. — Benjw  _{talk} 06:49, 12 January 2014 (EST)

• Support. Though I suck at art so I'll probably never get this my self. --RedHatter (talk) 15:27, 14 January 2014 (EST)

• Support, it would be neat to have a gallery of the artwork and it would be yet another reason to get into geohashing. Frogman (talk) 21:27, 15 January 2014 (EST)

Better Naming

The naming seems to be the only failure so far, so let's just start a list of better / more generally understandable names.
I choose Bob Ross originally because he was the first person plopping into my mind when I thought about a non-academic artist, famous for landscapes and encouraging people to be creative. But I understand that he's too widely unknown. ;) TroLLorT (talk) 13:19, 12 January 2014 (EST)

Naming is always hard. I've been running a background process in my head all day in search of a clever name for this achievement, and I haven't been able to come up with one. So for now, I'll just stick to one of the existing proposals. Anyone feeling creative? Posting this discussion to the news box. --Calamus 16:52, 12 January 2014 (EST)

Proposals

Name	Pros	Cons	Supporters
Geobrush achievement	understandable	brush only?	TroLLorT (talk) RedHatter (talk) OtherJack Jim
Ceci n'est pas un hashpoint achievement see: La trahison des images by René Magritte	nice allusion	again the Encyclopedia of Local Artists of Offshore Countries aka Wikipedia Magritte was an academic (professional) painter	Calamus OtherJack Jim Frogman
Visual Artist achievement	understandable	maybe a bit boring
Happy Trees achievement	stems (pun intended) from the original cause for Bob Ross' notoriety not specific to an individual artist	as opaque as the original proposal, just harder to look up trees only?	Jevanyn (talk)