Wikipedia:WikiProject Metalworking

Welcome to the Metalworking WikiProject! We're a WikiProject dedicated to improving the coverage of Metalworking on the English Wikipedia, including materials, processes, techniques, equipment, and more. Feel free to contribute to this page, or add yourself to the list of contributors below. If you have any questions or suggestions about the project, make sure to see the Talk page.

Please make sure to follow all Wikipedia policies when contributing to the project, including WP:MOS, WP:POV, and WP:SOURCE. Thanks so much for helping out!

Scope
Any articles in the Category:Metalworking and its sub-categories fall within our scope, as well as any articles that pertain in a direct way to the subject of Metalworking. We also work closely with similar projects whose scopes frequently coincide with ours.

Goals

 * To improve Wikipedia's coverage of metalworking by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
 * To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles within our scope.
 * To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to metalworking in Wikipedia.

How you can help
Be bold and contribute! Improve any articles you come across, look for articles to improve from our Cleanup listing, ask any of our regular contributors, or check the Work section below for specific projects.

Work
There's always work of some sort to be done; if you can't find any particular projects here to interest you, peruse pages within the Metalworking category to look for improvements you can make, or check out the Cleanup listing for articles that need improvement.

Feel free to add any tasks here that you think deserve the attention of the whole project; please sign using  and make sure to strikethrough or remove items as they are completed.

Keep in mind that if a machine exists for only one purpose or process, it's usually better to devote a section of the article for the process to the machine, rather than give the machine a separate article. If a complete, sourced article can be written about the machine, then by all means do so; this usually is not the case.

Vital articles
These are articles vital to the subject of metalworking; it would bolster the quality of Metalworking on Wikipedia significantly to bring them up to Featured article status.


 * Metalworking
 * Metalsmith
 * Machining

References and sources
If you take a look at the categorical Cleanup listing, you'll see that the two biggest categories by a huge margin are "Articles needing additional references" and "Articles with unsourced statements." I feel like most of the content across these articles is fairly reliable, so adding references and verifying shouldn't be a particularly arduous task. If anyone has access to technical manuals or other kinds of reliable sources, it would be a huge benefit to the project, disproportionate to the effort required. I've begun working on this, I've got access to one of the best libraries in the southeastern US, but I lack the appropriate expertise to efficiently find the right texts. --Kierkkadontalk/contribs 04:57, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I want to make it clear that I'm not impugning the value of unsourced contributions; on the contrary, I think very highly of much of the content covered by this project, unsourced or not. I'm not a deletionist, neither do I think that content should just come out of left field; but I do know that in metalworking in particular a lot of important information is just held as expert knowledge that's difficult to attach to a source. Add to that the tendency for technical manuals to be really dense and ... well, technical, and it's obvious why metalworking has so much content with so little referencing. This may not be true of all subjects, but metalworking is an area where I think we are better off having experts add their knowledge and then others follow along later verifying and referencing. For what it's worth. --Kierkkadontalk/contribs 05:13, 31 January 2013 (UTC)


 * I agree. And I feel that metalworking isn't alone regarding this theme—it holds true across various content areas in Wikipedia. It holds most strongly in industrial, commercial, and applied science areas, even more than in areas of pure science, academe, pop culture, and personal hobbies. So I'm glad to be a part of building areas like metalworking. It takes time, but it's a worthwhile pursuit... — ¾-10 01:30, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Request for reassessment
I just recently did a lot of rewrites and content-adding to Fixture (tool). It was listed as stub-class, now I think it deserves a better qualification but I don't feel comfortable basically grading myself on my own work. --Kierkkadontalk/contribs 23:02, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I've basically done exactly the same thing to Centerless grinding. I'd love for somebody to reassess it; I don't quite think it qualifies as Start class anymore. --Kierkkadontalk/contribs 17:33, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Requested articles

 * The following three either need to be outline-style pages, containing lists of pages that fall within their purvue, or dedicated articles themselves; these, from what I understand, are the three major categories into which all modern metalworking processes fall. They may exist as different names, but I think it would greatly improve the cohesion of Metalworking as a subject on Wikipedia if they were to be standardized. —Kierkkadontalk/contribs 16:33, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Forming (metalworking)
 * Done, but it still needs a fair amount of expansion and harmonization with the rest of Metalworking. —Kierkkadontalk/contribs 18:08, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Cutting (metalworking)
 * Instead of starting an article I expanded this one - cutting, this is my first non-trivial edit, feedback appreciated. Tealeafe 02 August 2014
 * Joining (metalworking)
 * Stretching (metalworking) Wizard191 (talk) 18:29, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Transfer stamping / transfer die Wizard191 (talk) 18:29, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Setup (manufacturing) Wizard191 (talk) 18:29, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Mill finishes or mill finish Wizard191 (talk) 21:21, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Done. --Kierkkadontalk/contribs 14:41, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Soaking pit Wizard191 (talk) 01:37, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Re-heat furnace Walking beam and pusher types. AutoElectEngr 6 February 2022
 * Stripper pin Wizard191 (talk) 00:51, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Side action / side pull Wizard191 (talk) 00:51, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Through hardening (currently a redirect) Wizard191 (talk) 00:35, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Core registration or registration (casting) Wizard191 (talk) 22:06, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Shakeout (casting) Wizard191 (talk) 00:35, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Chemical milling Wizard191 (talk) 22:07, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Done, but it needs to be merged with Industrial etching. —Kierkkadontalk/contribs 21:30, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Also done, but the merge has been disputed. Input would be quite welcome, as it doesn't look like this dispute is going anywhere. Talk:Industrial etching —Kierkkadontalk/contribs 19:26, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Zinc plating Wizard191 (talk) 17:29, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Straightening Wizard191 (talk) 18:32, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * For some reason this linked to an article on a hip hop group. Have removed link. CSK45Kays (talk) 15:51, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * ID grinding Wizard191 (talk) 20:07, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirected to Cylindrical grinder --Kharon (talk) 13:45, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Flame hardening Wizard191 (talk) 13:37, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Mold wash & refractory wash Wizard191 (talk) 21:32, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Chill testing Wizard191 (talk) 00:54, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * A possible ref
 * Tooling (currently a redirect) Wizard191 (talk) 21:27, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I thought tooling was industry jargon for tool supply and management, which Tool management covers. What would a separate Tooling article cover? --Kierkkadontalk/contribs 14:10, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
 * The term "tooling" traditionally to machinists, and today to machinists, has been a mass noun referring en masse to a certain range of kinds of tools—all of the cutting tools, tool holders, machine tool accessories, and tool and die–type equipment, such as fixtures and dies, used along with a machine tool itself to accomplish making a part. The machine tool itself is mentally separate, and the hand tools in one's toolbox, like a screwdriver, are not included either—this notion of which tools are not mentally classed as "tooling" is the part that non-machinists might find non-intuitive. The term "tool management" was not commonly used decades ago, but the concept would have been readily recognized—keeping track of tooling, maintaining/replacing, in short, managing it. Back then such work was done with files in cabinets and index cards in card catalog–type files (and in people's heads, although that's not a great method), and so forth—today it's done with software, but the concepts/goals are the same. I could see having a short separate article for tooling, simply for the reason of helping laypeople to understand what the word connotes, rather than for the sake of having a separate article, in itself. But I haven't thought it out extensively. I will give it some thought ...
 * It may not necessitate its own article, though there is enough science behind it to make one, Shrink Fitting is a process used on all spin tooling. It is definitely worth mentioning in a Tooling article. Will Prater
 * An IP editor recently changed the Tooling page from a redirect to an in-text request for deletion, and he also went around to a couple of other articles removing See also links to Tool management . I left a message on his talk page asking him about it, but I've never actually seen an IP editor respond. —Kierkkadontalk/contribs 20:52, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Shaping (metalworking) Wizard191 (talk) 14:37, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I redirected this page to Forming (metalworking) as that's the more common term (as far as I know). Am new to Wikipedia so I hope that's ok. CSK45Kays (talk) 16:05, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Diffusion bonding Wizard191 (talk) 14:37, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. --Kierkkadontalk/contribs 17:56, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Solid-state welding Wizard191 (talk) 17:22, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Gravity casting (see zinc aluminium) Wizard191 (talk) 19:23, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Direct chill casting Wizard191 (talk) 17:31, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Laser machining (currently a redirect) - Here's a good ref: . Wizard191 (talk) 21:58, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Why does this need to be its own article? What would Laser machining cover that Laser cutting doesn't? --Kierkkadontalk/contribs 19:26, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Autogrinder Wizard191 (talk) 13:32, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Milling (machining) Wizard191 (talk) 22:41, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. --Kierkkadontalk/contribs 05:36, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Gang milling needs to be merged into this after its creation. Wizard191 (talk) 22:41, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
 * And done. --Kierkkadontalk/contribs 01:36, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Cadillac gauge/Cadillac gage Wizard191 (talk) 23:29, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Isothermal forging, It exist in Spanish WP ( es:Forjado isotérmico ). --Armando-Martin (talk) 11:09, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Bull pin. Unclear (to me, who knows very little about metalworking) how a bull pin differs from a drift pin.  -- RoySmith (talk) 12:19, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Its not a pin really in sense of Metalworking but belongs to the family of Awl -es like a Bradawl. It most likely got its name for its common use in construction working for lining up a steel element hanging from a crane tru the holes (bulls eye) they get connected on with screws or rivets. --Kharon (talk) 20:31, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

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