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Miniskirt
Hello, I'm just looking through your ongoing edits to Miniskirt - great work! However, I have concerns that some of your claims and edits so far (I am only in the 1960s section ATM) are basically WP:OR. For example, you claim that Yves Saint Laurent did a minidress in 1963, but your citation and quote are to a picture, not to a quotation explicitly saying that the picture looks like a minidress - even the quotation doesn't use the words mini or minidress/miniskirt anywhere, so it basically reads like you are saying "this looked like a minidress so I will say so in the article". I would avoid that kind of statement - try to stick only to paraphrasing what has been written in other people's authoritative words, not your own personal interpretation of pictures. From the sounds of it, the YSL design may be a tunic or an overblouse rather than a dress, and there is no shortage of images of similarly minidress-looking garments from the 1920s onwards worn as tunic tops/blouses/top halves of outfits that anyone could declare "looks like a minidress" about, so there's no real reason to single this particular picture out unless an authority has already done so in their published book/article/research - especially when there is already so much miniskirt research out there to draw on.

I do wonder - are you perhaps preparing the article up to submit it for a Good Article review? If so, I'm happy to help, although I've been respectfully sitting back and letting you work through it for the last while. :) Mabalu (talk) 20:10, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Another friendly note - you seem to be using very large numbers of references to support some sentences and statements, including at least five in a row after a 9-word sentence, and it looks like some sentences have about 10-12 cites throughout them, like several cites after every single comma and then another big group at the end. This affects the readability of the article, and Wikipedia does caution against it - see WP:Citation overkill, so please consider rationalising the cites. Mabalu (talk) 20:34, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I will avoid doing that in the future. Colibri1 (talk) 04:30, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Could you also please avoid marking your edits as minor? A "minor" edit simply means you corrected a typo, added or removed a punctuation mistake, or did not change the meaning of the article in any way. Adding in entire paragraphs and sentences would not be considered minor edits, and reviewers sometimes filter out minor edits because they think they don't need checking. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Mabalu (talk) 14:35, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Sure. Colibri1 (talk) 21:01, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

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Hi Colibri1! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Lord Belbury (talk) 15:45, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

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