Talk:Waving

WHO INVENTED THE WAVE???

we must know so we can wave back to them!!!!!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dudanotak (talk • contribs) 14:55, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

actually no one invented the waves, it was formed in lots of culture. Google it. Hawaiian, roman stuff idk ForThePremier (talk) 08:34, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

Potential Sources for Further Research

1. Cooke, J.. (1959). A Few Gestures Encountered in a Virtually Gestureless Society. Western Folklore, 18(3), 233–237. http://doi.org/10.2307/1497708

This could used to add a form of waving used by motorcyclists but not sure if it is relevant to the article.

2. Morris, Desmond (1979). Gestures, their origins and distribution. New York: Stein and Day. p. 241. ISBN 0-8128-2607-8.

I used this source to add information about waving gestures used in Europe. This could be sued to add a new section about the different waves used in Europe and how they change from country to country.

Jpani004 (talk) 01:29, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

3. Plessis,Irina Garmashova-Du (1998). Russian Male Gestures for Greeting and Bidding Farewell. Language Matters. Vol. 29, Iss. 1, 1998

This source can be used to add on the way Russian people, primarily males, view waving one's hand.

Jpani004 (talk) 03:31, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Hey, cool article. Was actually my first choice. Mlecole (talk) 03:38, 7 September 2016 (UTC) @Alfgarciamora:

Recommendations

Hello everyone, so I am a student at FIU and I was given an assignment to edit a page on Wikipedia that doesn't have enough information on it, for a grade of course. I had a few ideas to add to this page however, I cannot find a lot of information but I think my ideas are good. If anyone has some recommendations, feedback or can share with me some websites where I can find this info. Feel free to contact me etc. Thank you all.

Ideas to add to the "Wave (gesture)" article: • Add a section for the history/where did the idea of waving come from (??) • Who came up with waving as a form of greeting, saying goodbye, or simply rejecting something altogether? • Edit: waving can be used to call for someone's attention aka acknowledge someone's presence • Different hand waves/gestures other than saying "hello" - flirtatious hand wave, different ways to say wave hello, palm wide wave, finger wiggle wave, miss america wave, hand wave meaning, etc. • waving (gesture) is a form of nonverbal communication - link nonverbal communication when stating this — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jlope487 (talk • contribs) 03:39, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Hello, I think you have some really good ideas on what to add to this page on the wave gesture. I like the idea you had ok how the meaning of this different kinds of waves. I think a good idea would be to come up with names for each of those questions if they're all gonna have separate categories. Alejandracornejo (talk) 03:43, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, so I added some information on my sandbox and you could check it out. I found the history of it and added links to more information. im not entirely finished, i just started on the history of waving. Check it out! Jlope487 (talk) 04:06, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

"History of Waving" section needs to be re-written

It seems highly unlikely that waving as a greeting wasn't invented until the 18th century and the link between waving and ASL or saluting isn't supported by the articles cited. --87.105.138.155 (talk) 11:49, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

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Requested move 17 October 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. Consensus below that the proposed title is preferable as WP:NATURALDISAMBIGUATION (closed by non-admin page mover) estar8806 (talk) ★ 00:36, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

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Wave (gesture) → Waving – Per WP:NATURALDIS. "Waving" already appears in the article almost as many times as "Wave", and the lede could be adjusted very easily. BD2412 T 18:00, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

• Support per WP:NATURALDISAMBIGUATION and WP:GERUND. The gerund form is a better article title for this topic anyway. Rreagan007 (talk) 20:24, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
• Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 05:15, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
• Support per nomination, Rreagan007 and Ortizesp. No need for the parenthetical qualifier "(gesture)". —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 02:23, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose "Waving" is still overly vague and is not solely used to refer to the gesture. This does not help navigation and is liable to result in WP:SURPRISE. This topic requires a disambiguation period, whether it be natural or otherwise. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 13:39, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

We only disambiguate article titles when there are multiple article titles with the same title. There are no other articles titled "waving" so a parenthetical disambiguation is unnecessary. And "waving" already redirects here, so WP:SURPRISE doesn't really apply, unless you are arguing that "waving" should redirect to a different article, which you do not appear to be doing. Rreagan007 (talk) 23:52, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

I am arguing that waving should redirect to the disambiguation page, yes. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 11:52, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

To the Wave (disambiguation) page? There's no article listed on that page that even contains the word "waiving", and the only article listed at the DAB page that would use the "waving" construction is this article. Rreagan007 (talk) 17:52, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

Waving can be equally used as the verb version of wave. For example, "the cornfield was waving in the wind" or "the flag was still waving atop the flagpole", which are not a human gesture in the slightest. There is WP:NOPRIMARY for the word. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 20:26, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

They may not be human gestures, but neither are they covered here as an encyclopedic topic. There is no other article properly titled "Waving". BD2412 T 21:17, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

We use nouns for article titles, not verbs. The fact that there is also an English verb "to wave" is not relevant, unless there is a Wikipedia article on the verb "To wave", which I highly doubt there is or ever will be since WP:Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Rreagan007 (talk) 23:07, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Italy

” The palm-show is dominant across most of Europe, but Italy predominantly uses the palm-hide wave.”

As an Italian, I can tell you that this does not make any sense. Actually, it shouldn’t make any sense to any reader. 92.19.73.173 (talk) 21:34, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

I presume that what you meant is that Italians do not perform the palm-hide gesture. I do not find any websites relating to what you’re stating, probably because I have not searched intensively enough. However if there is anyone that finds one can you reply with the link? Also make an account buddy, I know you live in london ForThePremier (talk) 08:33, 14 August 2025 (UTC)