Talk:History of knitting

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Article Grading: The following comments were left by the quality and importance raters: (edit · refresh) This article is quite good already, and I would propose it for GA if it were just a bit more fleshed out (and perhaps with more pictures). /blahedo (t) 02:23, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Older comment 2 Consolidation with knitting article? 3 Intro 4 Knitting Olympics?

[edit] Older comment

The Aran Islands aren't in Scotland so I made a minor change and stuck Ireland into the sentence until someone gets a chance to elaborate on Irish knitting. Cate (daylilly)

[edit] Consolidation with knitting article?

Is there a reason that this article shouldn't be consolidated with the main article about knitting? Many Wikipedia entries have History sections in them, and this one should be no exception.

I tend to agree, however it would make the knitting page very long --Knerq 20:40, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

I think the article is certainly long enough and interesting enough to stand on its own and there is a briefer sketch in the main knitting page, just as is the practice with most countries and so forth. I would oppose a merge. Rigadoun (talk) 18:47, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Intro

The article could benefit from a small intro just giving a basic definition of what it's about, It would help orientate the reader towards what's to come insteadof jumping right in, and is also preferred by the MoS. Would look better as well (not that it's not already quite nice). --DanielCD 01:34, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Knitting Olympics?

I don't think getting a few thousand online people to sign up and say they are knitting something within a time frame quite puts a blog onto the level of notability as the rest of the article. The comparison with the 2006 Torino Olympics is spurious — there is no bar to get into the Knitting Olympics so one would expect the numbers to be far greater than those who went to the real olympics! I am removing its undue emphasis from the article (its own separate heading), it looks quite silly to give some blog event this much attention in a longue duree history of knitting. --140.247.249.200 20:09, 30 March 2007 (UTC)