User talk:Mason Dixon Knitting

Perfect sweater
Hello Ann, I am responding to your email. I've undeleted the article Perfect sweater. I admit I may have been hasty in deleting the article. However, I suspect the slower procedures for deletion debates (Prod and AFD) will eventually end up deleting this article anyway. One main concern is the notability and inherent subjectivity of the subject. Is this suitable for an encyclopedia? I like the idea of an "open source" community-developed "perfect sweater" project that's free for anyone to use. I think it would be a great idea to start your own KnittingWiki. You can run your own wiki, for example using the Mediawiki software which powers Wikipedia; or you can have it hosted at Wikia. —Quarl (talk) 2006-10-08 04:08Z 


 * For goodness sake! Knitting patterns in Wikipedia! I have given the more merciful suggestion of transfer to Wikibooks but do it quickly before I delete this spam myself. -- RHaworth 06:54, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Good morning! Quarl, thank you very much for your thoughtful reply to my email. I see two distinct issues here: the history of the Perfect Sweater, and the Perfect Sweater pattern itself.

1. The history of the Perfect Sweater is a bit of cultural history, albeit in a specialized little world. This seems appropriate fodder for an encyclopedia which has no limit on entries. I have not checked, but I am guessing there are some entries here that I would consider extremely obscure, yet which are deeply important to the people who wrote them. A person searching for knitting topics would likely find "Perfect Sweater" extremely interesting and helpful.

2. The Perfect Sweater pattern. A knitting pattern is analogous to a cooking recipe. I think the Perfect Sweater pattern ought to live over at Wikibooks.

I will check into creating a KnittingWiki. It would be nice to have the Perfect Sweater pattern available to be edited there. Mason Dixon Knitting
 * OK. It is not actually a knitting pattern. I have put it up for AfD for a defintive opinion (in so far as anything is definitive here!). I am not quite sure myself whether it should stay or not. You would have done better (he says cynically) if you had posted the article using an anonymous Id. -- RHaworth 19:59, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

I find it quite sad that I'm being viewed skeptically for being honest. I totally realize that I could have posted this anonymously, but being honest and straightforward tends to work best in most cases. I have nothing to hide with regard to this entry. Mason Dixon Knitting