Talk:Knitting

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Knitting is currently a good article nominee. However, an editor has placed this article on hold and is awaiting minor changes to be made as outlined in his/her notes below. This will influence his/her decision in passing or failing the article as a good article. This tag will stay in place for a minimum of 2 days and a maximum of 7. Placement date: 2007-04-01

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[edit] GA On Hold

I know a thing or two about knitting, so I thought I'd give this article a review:

• There doesn't appear to be enough references and cites in this article. It is commonplace to quote page numbers when quoting from a book and is unclear where large chunks of the infomation comes from. A good example of a well referenced article is Iron Maiden.
• I think it is inappropriate to mention Yahoo groups, ...but I could be wrong. It seems like the article is advertising a social group and it's not common for all knitters the world over.
• There appears to be no mention of casting on and not enough references to the different names used for the stitch styles throughout the world. (BTW: Personally, I am looking at this from a British perspective and it doesn't seem neutral enough)
• The History and Culture section seems to be quite short for a function that was traditionally enjoyed by both men and women for thousands of years.

I have put the article On hold in hope that you will have time to fix the above.

Fluffball70 20:46, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for taking the time to do this! It may take me a little bit to get to this; I hope you'll allow me a few days before you pass or fail this article. I may require the full seven day maximum, as I am rather busy, unless someone else steps in to do this, as well. Again, thanks! – Dok^{(talk|contribs)} 00:05, 5 April 2007 (UTC)