Talk:Mitten

Lot of inspiration on Wikimedia Commons
We should look at some of the cultural diversity in c:Category:Mittens for inspiration in expanding this article.--Pharos (talk) 19:31, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * , Good point! Gallery started with a diversity of mittens. -- Fuzheado &#124; Talk 19:47, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks to both of you for this. Long overdue, and I love it! Jane (talk) 12:16, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

In popular culture section is bloated
Greetings fellow editors,

so I'm currently trying to prep the article for DYK, and while I must say I'm glad I'm not editing alone, I feel like the "in popular culture" section in its current form is a bad example of what WP:POPCULTURE warns about (you could also point to the more official WP:HTRIVIA). I mean, it's certainly interesting to hear about Ukrainian folk songs and nursery rhymes and domestic cats wandering around, this is distracting a bit from the main subject of the article: An article of clothing. And most of these things named "mitten sth" actually already have their own articles, so the information will be available even if not included here.

@, you are right that interest is probably fueled by the Senator Sanders meme (although, surprisingly, I found it via the new article bot), and I would want that part to stay since it involves the clothing specifically (it just atm lacks a citation). However, I would want to remove most of the other entries there, as they can be found via the disambiguation link at the top of the article. I hope you understand and agree. --LordPeterII (talk) 17:30, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

I didn't intend or expect everything I added to the section to stay there; I wanted to suggest a breadth of ways mittens appear in popular culture in order to guide subsequent edits. However, I think the nursery rhyme should stay because it's a poem about and for children, so it reveals that mittens have historically been worn by children, who have had a habit of losing them (hence the 'idiot mittens' mentioned above). Pureriviera (talk) 14:41, 3 February 2021 (UTC)