Talk:Idol

"Idols!"

I have just now made a new entry— Cult image— an unfamiliar expression, apparently, but it is the educated usage: "Idols!" Earlier today, someone made a bot that ran through Wikipedia redirecting all links of idol secretly to idolatry! How elegant. "Idols indeed!" "Idols" are worshipped by "natives" aren't they? invariably dark-skinned natives, who grovel before their "idols" in the Oriental dust. Europeans don't worship "idols": they put them in museums. Idols are non-Christian, and, quite tellingly, "idols" are non-European too. The Hermes of Praxiteles is never an "idol", though any pre-16th saint you especially admire would have told you that it was. Idols have jewels in their navels, to be filched by Indiana Jones... I have been working my way through the "idols" in Wikipedia today: I've tuned up to concert pitch in this disambiguation page too... --Wetman 20:40, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Things is your edits to this page have made it not conform to the MoS:DP style guideline, which it previously did. Perhaps you can fix it up? Thanks/wangi 21:33, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wetman, you made a lovely and scholarly addition here, but it should be added to one of the more specific articles, not to the disamb page; please feel free to retrieve it from the page history and add it elsewhere. Thank you for the excellent work! 21:20, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

I have added the deleted material at cult image, which anyone might so easily have done. --Wetman 09:25, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry I didn't do so; I should have explained better that I felt you understand this subject well and would do a better job of integrating into the proper place in one of the existing articles, and I felt sure you were watching the page and would see my comment. I wouldn't have left the job half-done if you hadn't come back to it soon. Thank you for the elegant edit. — Catherine\^talk 23:24, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

man-made not a requirement for Murthi

The text of this article states that an idol is a man made object. It then goes on to list Murthi as an example of an idol. A Murthi is a form, but not necessarily man-made. I think that either the definition of idol should be changed, or it should be made clear that some terms on the list include objects of worship which are not idols per that definition. (I apologize if this seems nit-picky) --BostonMA 23:10, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rereading the text, I see that it also states that an idol is an image, which I think also does not apply to many Murthis. --BostonMA 23:11, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Idol as role model

I have started working on disambiguating Idol links and I have realized that none of the currently available entries for idol covers its meaning as "role model". Maybe "Teen Idol" should be expanded to represent a more general view of the term? Ferengi 10:36, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]