Talk:Veiqia

Further material
Jacobs, Karen. This Is Not a Grass Skirt : On Fibre Skirts (liku) and Female Tattooing (veiqia) in Nineteenth Century Fiji, Sidestone Press, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/york-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5979977. (I got up to p.46) Lajmmoore (talk) 07:03, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

WiG minireview
Setting up for review Mujinga (talk) 13:13, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Apologies for the delay, getting to this now Mujinga (talk) 15:33, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

This is an interesting article which I think could be a good article with a bit of work. Since it's on a fairly unique topic it's hard to think of a template to follow (I mean if you want to write a GA on an actor or football match there's plenty of other articles which are already GAs and could be used as a template). So the sections could I think be combined more, but I don't have a template to suggest. That's also possibly something to sort out at the review stage, otherwise I'll say merge the mythology section and then the reviewer will insist you put it back! There's a few things which could be hyperlinked and a few sentences I thought could be reworded, so I've done that but feel free to undo the changes if you don't like them.

There's quite a lot of fijian words so it can be a bit confusign at times and at points I'd like more explanation eg what "masi, tabua or liku" are. Yes I could click through but it's good to explain here as well. On a similar tip, i think it's worth saying where the Peabody Essex Museum and the Pitt Rivers are located.

Earwig copyvio check turns up nothign, article is stable, references seem good on a quick check (altho a few lack "work="), pic is in public domain, all good!

Per Manual of Style/Lead section, the lead shoudl summarise the article's contents. It does do that and one paragraph is ok, but it coudl perhaps be expanded a bit, maybe mention museums by name or Julia Mage’au Gray. "make the tools, some of which were reserved for use on high status women" isn't mentioned in body.

All in all a fascinating article and worth putting forward for review in my opinion. Good luck! Mujinga (talk) 16:14, 18 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks so much for your thoughts - this is really helpful. I don't think I'll be working on it imminently, but it's great to know you think it has potential. Lajmmoore (talk) 21:09, 24 October 2021 (UTC)