Talk:Oilskin

Why stub?

 * How come this has been marked as a stub? It's not exactly War & Peace, but it seems like a fair article. --Pete 22:40, 8 April 2005 User:137.205.31.138
 * No answer, so I've removed the marker. PeteVerdon
 * Just a note that it would seem that this article does need a bit of expansion in the historical direction. Say like the leathers coated with oils in Viking and medevil times and such. -DB 21:58, 4 January 2006 User:216.54.54.226

Modern rain gear would not remotely be considered oil skins. That is really poor phraseology. I suggest this whole thing be redone.

The topic should be rain proof gear, oil skins are one form that is outdated and we sure do not nor did call them that and I grew up fishing. It was raincoats not oil skins. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.237.51.20 (talk) 00:33, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

Merge waxed jacket here?

 * Should "waxed jacket" be merged into this article? // Habj 23:33, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
 * No. It's something entirely different. Does what the guys in the picture are wearing look anything like this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by PeteVerdon (talk • contribs) 20:30, 4 May 2006

Move/Replace

 * On second thoughts, after reading both DB's and Habj's comments, there might be a better way to lay these things out. The current article on sailing clothing should probably be at oilskins, with an 's', while a future article on the waterproofed fabric should be here at oilskin and include a "see also" or a link in the text, pointing to the sailing one. The oilskin article can then go into excruciating detail about canvas, oil, leather and vikings, and even mention waxed jackets if it likes. I'm not going to make this rearrangement just yet, though, as there's very little text about the material in the article. If it interests you, go ahead and add it, then you or I can split out the sailing stuff once there's enough fabric stuff to make an article on its own. PeteVerdon 20:49, 4 May 2006 (UTC)


 * How to retrieve and edit the reflist in the references section. it seems there are duplicate Grundens History in there.

Oilskin is a fabric

 * This article is talking about expensive clothing for sailors, not about the oilskin fabric. It seems wrong to have it under the heading "oilskin".  Mountain climbers and explorers wore oilskins in the 1800s to survive extreme terrain.
 * At the very least, there should probably be a disambiguation page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.162.100.52 (talk • contribs) 14:55, 19 May 2006
 * Agreed, as I said above. However, there seems no point in moving the existing page leaving behind an empty article. If someone wants to write a piece about the fabric they should do so, and move most of the current article to oilskins or, at a pinch, oilskins (sailing). PeteVerdon 21:22, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Sister link
Local wikilink "sou'wester" redirects to this article, so the point in this article that refers to sou'westers seemed the natural place for a sister link to Wiktionary's entry. --Pi zero (talk) 13:01, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Differentiation of Oilskin, Raincoat, and Maybe Waxed Jacket
I’ve come here wondering what the difference is between a normal raincoat and an oilskin, but the article never mentions raincoats. Another person seems to have been interested in waxed jackets and how they compare. It would be interesting if someone knowledgeable on the topic could provide some differentiating information in the article. Thanks! —Telofy (talk) 17:58, 9 February 2016 (UTC)