Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jewellery making


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The result was merge into Handmade jewelry by WP:SNOW. Bearian (talk) 02:18, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Jewellery making

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Unreferenced, probably WP:OR. Fails WP:N on its own and should already be covered in Jewellry if it isn't already. Collectonian (talk) 09:03, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, it is covered under Jewellery already.Aeternitas827 (talk) 09:13, 13 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep - This article is unreferenced because I could not figure out the format for properly referencing the sources that are outlined in external links. Most of this article could be described as common knowledge. The main article on Jewellery primarily covers the historical basis of jewelry, and does not distinguish between amateur techniques and professional techniques of creating jewelry. Nothing in the main article describes jewelry making for the hobbyist (as opposed to professional jewelers and retail stores). Even in the article handmade jewelry the focus is on fine jewelry rather than homemade beaded jewelry or macrame bracelets and so on. In fact, nothing is mentioned in the article on handmade jewelry about costume jewelry made by hand by hobbyists. Userafw (talk) 09:30, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * You know, you could have always just expanded handmade jewelry rather than making another article. For citations, WP:CITE and WP:citation_templates for learning how, or just look at other articles with properly formatted cites and look at the code to see how they did it. And I disagree with the article being mostly "common knowledge." It may be common knowledge to you, if you are someone who does make jewelry, but other 90% of the world it is not. Collectonian (talk) 09:38, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I think this is a subject that is in fact notable on its own - a search of jewelry hobby on yahoo actually came up with 64 million results. If I had moved the entire contents of this page to handmade jewelry some of it would not be relevant to the topic, since etching is frequently done by machine in the mass production of jewelry designed for the retail market (as I had previously discovered by following some of the links under both jewellery and handmade jewelry - so that would not count as "handmade". Also, some jewelry made by hobbyists is not necessarily "one of a kind" (as described in handmade jewelry) since some hobbyists use store bought kits. Userafw (talk) 09:50, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * The number of Google hits does not establish notability. Please read up on WP:N for guidelines on what the notability criteria are. Collectonian (talk) 09:54, 13 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Merge with Handmade jewelry or jewelry. -- θnce θn this island Speak! 13:15, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge with Handmade jewelry, if it adds anything. JohnCD (talk) 14:57, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * The Handmade jewelry page just disappeared and I didn't do it. Userafw (talk) 15:44, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok, since the Handmade jewelry page has returned, I experimented with adding this content to that page. Check and see what you think. If you dislike the results, perhaps this page should be kept. Userafw (talk) 16:13, 13 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Merge with Handmade jewelry, it's pretty much the same thing. Malinaccier (talk) 23:43, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I'd suggest a merge of the relevant info to handmade jewelry, but redirect the actual page title to jewelry. GlassCobra 07:51, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge with Handmade jewelry. Not enough here to stand on its own. It's the same editor on both pages anyway... &mdash;  Hello Annyong  [ t &#183; c ] 15:15, 15 December 2007 (UTC)


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