Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry
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I have added some topics and in the last edit I restructured the structure somewhat. If you don't like it, it is easy for you to reverse without deleting all the other new elements. I am not quite sure how else to go about it.. first discuss it on here ?
Gem-fanat 17:11, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Overlap with mineralogy
I couldn't agree more. Sapphires, Rubies, Diamonds and Emeralds, as well as some others have a very mineralogical/scientific approach to them which is perfectly fine, but there should be a gemstone/jewelry component added to them.
Also I think in the case of minerals like Agate and other so called semi-precious stones, if there were a conflict of interests, we should leave the lead more to the mineralogy community. In the end anything these days can be considered a gemstone, and anything can be considered a mineral (well not completely true but for the sake of argument). I would suggest we'd keep the lead a bit more when we deal with well established gemstones (and ok one can discuss if Agate is one or not) and at the same time leave the lead when it's a less well established gemstone.
Perhaps we need to create a template of what should be on a gemstone page, not destroying the work that has already been done by others.
Gem-fanat 20:03, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Sources
I am noticing a disturbing trend in references. One thing is to quote an article/book that is published on a website but which in itself is a reliable source. I think that is perfectly fine. With Pearls however I start to see resources being added in the form of footnotes that are not legitimate sources at all. In fact they are self published articles, circulated in a ring of e-commerce sites, which are then being quoted as sources. Whilst I think the added pieces are not bad, we should improve the sources and as a project take ownership of the sources/references.
Gem-fanat 21:44, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Gemology and Jewelry discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals
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