Wikipedia:WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry/Lapidary
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[edit] Tagging and Categorising Articles
[edit] Main page categories
The Gemology and Jewelry category structure is:
- Needs to be filled in
[edit] Project Banner for article Talk pages
Articles related to Gemology and Jewelry should be tagged on the Talk page with {{WP Gemology and Jewelry}}
For full details about using this talk page template see Template:WP Gemology and Jewelry.
[edit] Categorizing
- Articles related specifically to Jewelry should be tagged on the Talk page with {{WP Gemology and Jewelry|jewelry=yes}}
- Articles related specifically to Gemstones should be tagged on the Talk page with {{WP Gemology and Jewelry|gemstones=yes}}
- Articles related specifically to Gemology should be tagged on the Talk page with {{WP Gemology and Jewelry|gemology=yes}}
- Articles related specifically to the business aspects of gems and jewelry, should be tagged on the Talk page with {{WP Gemology and Jewelry|business=yes}}
- Articles related specifically to people invloved in gemology or jewelry, should be tagged on the Talk page with {{WP Gemology and Jewelry|people=yes}}
[edit] Rating Articles
When tagging articles, the articles class and importance can be rated. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry/Assessment for details on assessment guidelines.
- |class= |importance=
[edit] Class
The following values may be used for the class parameter:
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- FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article Gemology and Jewelry pages)
[edit] Importance
The following values may be used for the importance parameter:
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- Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- The parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA
[edit] Resources
- Many of the article headings listed below, were drawn from WinJewel dictionary online and Jewelry Glossary - Definition of Jewelry Terms
- For gemstone misnomers
- Gemology Dictionary
- World of gemstones
[edit] Article List
Main Article - Lapidary
[edit] Stone Cutting
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- Bruting
- Calibrated
- Calibre-cut
- Cross facets
- Cross-cut
- Cutting
- Diamond cutting
- Dop
- Facet
- Facets
- Fancy shapes
- Fashioning of stones
- Gem peg
- Jam-Peg
- Lap
- Lapidary
- Multi-facet diamond
- Slab
- Tumbling
[edit] Cut Styles
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- Baguette cut
- Baton cut
- Brilliant-cut
- Briolette cut
- Cabochon cut
- Cap cut
- Curvette cut
- Cut-Cornered
- Cuts of Stones
- Double rose cut
- Doublet
- Eight cut
- Emerald cut
- Ideal cut
- Keystone cut - stone shape
- Lasque cut
- Lozenge cut
- Lunette cut - stone cut shape
- Marquise cut - stone cut shape
- Navette cut
- Mixed cut
- Obus cut - stone cut shape
- Pendeloque cut - cut stone shape
- Princess cut
- Profile cut
- Radiant cut
- Rose cut - cut stone shape
- Royal cut
- Scissor cut
- Senaille cut
- Step cut
- Trapeze cut - cut stone shape
- Trapezoid cut
- Triangle cut - cut stone shape
- Triplet
