User:CatherineGinn2023/sandbox

Our Goals for Editing this Article:


 * Remove current images and charts, as they seem (to my partner and I) to be misplaced, confusing, and/or irrelevant to the content of this article/the content we are hoping to provide in this article
 * Create a section discussing the origins of the practice*
 * Reorganize article so that it flows better
 * Perhaps remove "Other Uses" section, which, once we determine whether or not we should distinguish this article as being solely about marital matchmaking, may no longer be necessary to include
 * Create a "Purposes" section, which discusses the origins and purposes of the profession/tradition
 * Rewrite "Practice" section, so that it is more equally inclusive of the matchmaking traditions/practices in world cultures (meaning that, given we can find enough information about them, we will include subsections about matchmaking in Jewish culture (already mentioned in this section as it is written, but only briefly), Irish culture (mentioned in a comment on the talk page), and Asian cultures (already has its own subsection, but what has been written does not seem substantial enough to justify having its own subsection (so we hope to remedy this by finding more information about the specific rituals and such involved (the same goes for the subsections we will create about the other cultures))

Not to be confused with matcha-making.


 * This section will be removed, as, though there is an obvious similarity in the way both of these terms sound, there is no logical way (in my mind) that someone (other than perhaps a child) could mistake matcha-making for matchmaking, or get the two confused
 * Might remove this section and its purpose entirely by changing the name of the article to either "Marital Matchmaking" or "Matchmakinging (for marriage)"(the latter of these follows the format provided for what I'm referring to as "distinguishing titles", which I view as having the purpose of separating the different aspects of the same topic (for an example of both a "distinguishing title" and the format which they take, see the article entitled "Matchmaking (video games)".

This article is about human matchmakers. For modern matchmaking which tends to substitute information technology or game-like rules for the expert's finesse, see Dating. For matchmaking in online gaming, see Matchmaking (video games).


 * Will be changed to the following:
 * This article provides information surrounding the profession/tradition of marital matchmaking in different world cultures. For information about modern methods of marital matchmaking, such as online dating, see the article entitled Dating. Information about matchmaking in online video games see Matchmaking (video games).

Matchmaking is the process of matching two or more people together, usually for the purpose of marriage, but the word is also used in the context of sporting events such as boxing, in business, in online video games and in pairing organ donors.


 * Will be changed to the following:
 * [Marital] Matchmaking (or Matchmaking (for marriage))* is ​the activity of trying to arrange marriages or relationships between other people . This activity is utilized in many different world cultures and religions, for many different purposes.

* Depending on whether instructor agrees with my assessment of first section of this article and believes that changing the name of the article would be an appropriate action to help both with the distinguishing of this article as pertaining specifically marital matchmaking and making the writing process easier by establishing that this article will only provide information about marital matchmaking, thus allowing my partner and I to focus only on providing information about this specific form of matchmaking.

Create section entitled "Purposes" (which will pick up where the introductory paragraph left off, and begin the discussion of the different purposes of marital matchmaking)


 * That section will be as follows:
 * The purpose of the tradition is to bring together two individuals into a marriage. However, the marriage itself can have many different purposes.

Bibliography Thus Far

“Matchmaking.” Matchmaking Noun - Definition, Pictures, Pronunciation and Usage Notes | Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com, Oxford Learner's Dictionary, www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/matchmaking?q=matchmaking.

Wollburg, Clara. “The History of Matchmaking and the Function of Intermediaries in the Marriage Market.” Talenteck. 2016. PDF


 * This article has provided extremely helpful information about the history of matchmaking practices and the functions that the marriages which resulted from successful matches were meant to serve. (I am sorry this annotation is so lackluster, I have not had much time to work on research as of late)

Challenges We Are Facing Thus Far:


 * Alexia has been unable to contribute due to the complications that the current health crisis is causing to her housing situation
 * She has since had to return to her home in France, and is having deal with settling back in and such
 * Preliminary research attempts on the origins of matchmaking using scholarly sources (databases such as JSTOR and Google Scholar) have yielded no helpful results, as most journals and such that they carry focus specifically on matchmaking in Asian cultures
 * I have been able to find one source thus far on the origins of matchmaking, but it is not from a scholarly source (I used Google to find it, and it was not published by a scholarly journal or popular source)
 * Finding new images of artwork that depicts matchmaking has been difficult, and the few I have been able to find have very little information published about them that I have been able to find