Talk:Blanket

= Topics from 2005-2008 =

Electric blankets
In the cleanup, someone should discuss electric blankets and give a balanced view of the purported health risks thereof. - unsigned comment by User:DomenicDenicola 06:28, 29 November 2005


 * Better to do that in a separate article on electric blankets. Shantavira 13:14, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

History of blankets
What about the history of blankets over the millennia? That would be interesting to read about. - Gilgamesh 12:02, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Wool blankets
I merged "wool blankets" here with a redirect. That page simply listed properties of wool that make it a good fiber for blankets.Henitsirk 02:50, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

= Topics from 2009-2010 =

Blanket sizes
I was hoping to find typical blanket dimensions for various size beds. —71.193.183.16 (talk) 18:33, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

re: Crib: 45 by 60 inches Twin: 66 by 90 inches Double: 80 by 90 inches Queen: 90 by 90 to 100 inches King: 108 by 90 to 100 inches User:UniqueThrows4Less (talk) 23:43, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Jackson
I'm bored of this edit back and forth. I can't see any reason why a nickname for a passing interest child, who, IMHO should not have a page, deserves headline status, when he is linked from the aforementioned disam page. I have no idea what the page hits the editor is referring to. MrMarmite (talk) 11:01, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Blanket Jackson is set to inherit about 13% of Michael Jackson's estate, including royalties and proceeds from the expected "This Is It" concert/tour. The child was in world news, at age 9 months, so notability should not be an issue, with this child. The page-hits are from http://stats.grok.se/200906/Blanket (also see: Special:Statistics). -Wikid77 (talk) 12:48, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Retrofit talk-page year headers/subpages
08-July-09: I have added subheaders above as "Topics from 2005" (etc.) to emphasize the dates of topics in the talk-page. Older topics might still apply, but using the year headers helps to focus on more current issues as well. Afterward, I dated/named unsigned comments and moved entries into date order for 2007. -Wikid77 (talk) 12:48, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Link to Blanket Jackson
08-July-2009: On 25-26 June 2009, following the death of singer Michael Jackson, readership jumped 11x times higher for article "Blanket" ("Blanket Jackson" is the nickname of the youngest son of Michael Jackson). Although in April 2009, article "Blanket" had averaged 210 hits per day, after June 25 the page-views jumped up to 2,500 and averaged 1200 per day for 12 days. On the day of the funeral of Michael Jackson, pageviews jumped to 5,000 combined for (blanket & Blanket Jackson). On 3 days, I changed the top hat-note to directly link to "Blanket Jackson" and not force readers to read "Blanket (disambiguation)". Often, 75% of readers would rather link directly to their intended article, rather than the disambiguation page. However, as can be expected, some editors quickly reverted the hat-note to exclude "Blanket Jackson" and force readers to view the disambiguation page. This is a very common problem across all of Wikipedia, where many editors try to force readers to read disambiguation pages, rather than also link to focus on the most common 2nd usage of a word, as has been done for decades in mainstream dictionaries. -Wikid77 (talk) 12:48, 8 July 2009 (UTC)


 * You seemed very passionate about this. There is no conspiracy against MJ, just that children, only "famous" due to their parentage, are rarely worthy of more than a note in the parental article. The link now only links to the MJ article. The interest in this child is fleeting, and I am sure users who are keen to find out more can cope with the task of finding a redirect to MJ's page on the disam page. Where does this 75% number come from. I have heard 87.3% of all statistics are just made up. ACarPark (talk) 17:00, 8 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I see that pointless link is back again with Wikid77 quoting more statistics. Once the pages he has created on these young children are deleted, any further creation and linking would be seen as vandalism, and thus, hopefully, this will end.MrMarmite (talk)

Linking separate article Blanket Jackson
08-July-2009: I re-created an article for Blanket Jackson, as "Prince Michael Jackson II" (which had been created/stopped a year earlier). There had been an anti-Jackson effort, through 2008, to limit the total sub-articles about Michael Jackson (2008 article rank #142), and redirect everything into the one article. Consequently, upon his death, pageviews of article "Michael Jackson" soared 341x times higher (to 5.9 million per day), with over 21,500 redirects (per day) as sub-titles which should have been sub-articles already. Thankfully, many editors began (re-)creating the requested sub-articles. This situation is another case, where common-sense levels of reader interest, had been thwarted, so that when a crisis arises, Wikipedia is unprepared to offer all the logical sub-articles in a reasonable structure. Exclusive hat-note linking to disambiguation pages is another problem, which ironically increases ambiguity for readers, who would rather just link directly to the 2nd major article ("Blanket Jackson") for that disambig. word. Again, these problems occur in many other articles, and narrow linking to disambiguation-pages is a systemic problem throughout Wikipedia, increasing page-views perhaps four-fold (4x) rather than directly link a major alternate article. -Wikid77 (talk) 12:48, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Blankets and bedspreads
08-July-2009: It is not possible to count the readers who come to article "Blanket" specifically looking for the topic as Blanket Jackson, versus those who become curious about other uses of word "blanket". Meanwhile, the article "Bedspread" has averaged 4 pageviews per day in June/July 2009, and had 5 & 6 pageviews when Jackson died, rather than jumping 11x times higher, as did "Blanket" jumping to 2500 hits, after an average of 210 per day. However, once "Blanket Jackson" became linked in the top hat-note, then interest in article "Blanket (disambiguation)" dropped drastically. Most readers want to see articles, not disambiguation-pages, as has been proven, many times, with other titles as well. -Wikid77 (talk) 12:48, 8 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Out of genuine interest..where do you find these stats? ACarPark (talk) 17:03, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Psychophysiology?
That doesn't seem appropriate for this article. Does raincoat get tagged with meteorology? Kortoso (talk) 17:53, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 3 July 2018
A cuddly piece of heaven. Sonya030 (talk) 22:06, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. L293D (☎ • ✎) 22:11, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

correct it: lodix add feminine for the Greek lodix
We are supposed to add all the information. Add the sex of nouns! (in English there is a debate, are the nouns "asexual" or "non-defined sexually"; the correct notation is: "non-defined sexually"; "non-defined sexually" articles are missing from Italian, French, Greek, etc. so even these languages don't have all possible hypersexes (the hypercategory of sex, including the non-applicable option - asexuality usually is about not having sex when others have in that category) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:587:411F:D00:E910:7012:F82B:C1A6 (talk) 04:55, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 21 January 2021
Thamk (talk) 19:15, 21 January 2021 (UTC) just let me EDIT this
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: this is not the right page to request additional user rights. You may reopen this request with the specific changes to be made and someone will add them for you, or if you have an account, you can wait until you are autoconfirmed and edit the page yourself. &#8209;&#8209; El Hef  ( Meep? ) 19:30, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

(Dubious) Etymology from Thomas Blanket / Blanquette - needs review?
The first sentence under "Etymology" section of this page says: "The term arose from the generalization of a specific fabric called Blanket fabric, a heavily napped woolen weave pioneered by Thomas Blanket (Blanquette), a Flemish weaver who lived in Bristol, England, in the 14th century."

A friend and I tried to learn more about this "Thomas Blanket / Blanquette", but we - surprisingly - could not find any reputable and publicly available sources about this man. There is very little about him on the internet.

This line cites two sources: an old NYTimes print article, and an article on JSTOR. We were not able to view the NYTimes article, but we viewed the JSTOR article. The JSTOR article makes two mentions of Thomas Blanket, but doesn't allude to this being the source of the common term. Rather it simply alludes to Blanket's business decisions and influence on the industry.

The most popular online etymology dictionary does not mention Thomas Blanket at all for this word: https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=blanket (Sources appear reputable: https://www.etymonline.com/columns/post/sources?utm_source=etymonline_footer&utm_medium=link_exchange)

Now... I realize this is a blog post, so it's not a reputable source at all, but it makes intriguing mention of a "Joseph Leech" who may have spawned this urban legend... https://eugenebyrne.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/who-invented-the-blanket/ (EDIT: This also corroborates Thomas Blanket, sorry, I didn't read this carefully since it was just a blog post!)

Quote: "This here tomb is in St Stephen’s Church, Bristol [...] It is generally thought to be the last resting place of a guy named Edmund Blanket, and of his wife, Mrs Blanket. Local history enthusiasts will tell you of the local legend that Edmund Blanket invented, well, blankets. [...] Bristol’s most colourful Victorian newspaperman, Joseph Leech, wrote an extremely fanciful account of the blanket’s invention/discovery. In a story in Brief Romances from Bristol History (1884, a collection of what were originally articles in the Bristol Times) he imagined ‘Edward’ Blanket struggling to make his weaving business a success [...]"

Researching Joseph Leech leads to some more sources that say he invented this myth, for example, The Bristol Mag mentions: "Victorian newspaperman Joseph Leech invented the myth that the woollen cloth called a blanket was named after Edmund who, allegedly, being cold one night, removed a strip of wool from a loom to cover his bed." - https://thebristolmag.co.uk/the-original-influencers-inspiring-people-from-bristols-history/

I'm no scholar but I am hoping someone better at research can look into this further. I think, at the least, the Wikipedia text should be changed to reflect that this is a disputed claim, and perhaps mention Joseph Leech's urban myth... The other etymology explanations (like French "blanc") should be moved to the top of that section since there's more evidence that's where the term actually originated, not as a generalization of anyone's name.

Cheryllium (talk) 17:24, 7 April 2021 (UTC) Cheryllium
 * That's all wrong. The blanket was invented by a bloke called Thomas Eiderdown. -Roxy the sycamore . wooF 17:28, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

(Apologies, I'm new and not sure how to format this reply.) I really shouldn't have skimmed the blog post. It mentions two 19th century sources that may be leads... "There’s another intriguing scrap of circumstantial evidence from Witney in Oxfordshire. Witney was famous in the 19th and 20th centuries as the centre of Britain’s blanket industry. Until the duvet came along, almost everyone in Britain went to sleep under Witney blankets. Two separate 19th century histories of Witney both credit the invention of the blanket to “Thomas Blanket” or “Thomas à Blanket” of Bristol. (Giles, J.A.; History of Witney (J.R. Smith, London, 1852) and Monk, W.J.; History of Witney (J. Knight, Witney, 1894))" Cheryllium (talk) 18:21, 7 April 2021 (UTC) Cheryllium

Semi-protected edit request on 4 September 2021
Change source no.3 regarding the origin of the word coming from "blanc" to a web archive page (https://web.archive.org/web/20101128151433/http://podictionary.com/?p=2754). The current source redirects to a non-related site. Invariant Marxism (talk) 01:07, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Done, thank you for your suggestion. Just ' i ' yaya  01:14, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 29 February 2024
there are two repeated words in the list of Sanskrit words for blanket; somebody should probably take those out. i'd do it myself except i'm a dirty IP editor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.147.179.141 (talk) 19:06, 29 February 2024 (UTC)