Talk:List of knots

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When someone gets around to creating an article for prusik knot, there's already an uploaded image:

Image:PrusikKnot.jpg

RedWolf 03:11, Feb 14, 2004 (UTC)

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It would be good if this list showed the purpose of each knot. It's quite a task I know. Julianp 04:56, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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Can water knot be created as a simple redirect to surgeon's knot (sp?)? I seem to remember something like that being an alternate name, but don't have a reference book handy... Ojw 17:58, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Knot templates?

Reef knot
Image:Sqrknot.png
Names	Reef knot, Square knot
Efficiency	80%
Origin	ancient
Typical use	Sailing

Talk:Knot for the discussion...?

[edit] Page organization

Many of the listings here are duplicate names for the same knot. Shouldn't we mark this somehow? For instance:

• reef knot

Some time later:

• square knot -> reef knot

--Smack (talk) 00:10, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Purpose?

What is the reasoning of having this page? Doesn't Category:Knots produce this list? Dddstone 13:01, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

It looks like there's not much reasoning at all. See Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes. --Smack (talk) 06:25, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

At the current time the Category:Knots does not directly produce this list, there they are subdivided into 19 sub-categories by their function(not of name). It is slightly useful to be able to look at all given knots by their name in one place (not all the spellings of names in search will redirect to proper page) and not have to know ahead of time what classification is of the knot your looking for happens. Plus a few pages have or have had links to the page. This page is probably a little redundant due to search. (WikipedianYknOK 09:28, 15 March 2007 (UTC))