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[edit] Gem and Jewelry Wikiproject

Hi, I have just recently begun the groundwork for a wikiproject on Gems and Jewelry. Have not put it up for proposal yet, but would you be interested in working on this? My start page is at my user space - here. If not - cheers! SauliH 02:33, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Treat the working page as if it were up and running. Add what you like, and be prepared to be edited mercilessly! :) Eventually we can do a move to a WP name that makes sense. We can put it up at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals to for a broader reach, but I think if look at active editors on the pages, it will be a better way to go. SauliH 19:23, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
We should make an effort to recruit a number of editors for the project. Three things we could do. One add WP proposal at WP Proposals to garner some interest. Two, scour the frequent editors of Gem and jewelry related pages for people we can invite directly (many do not watch the WP Proposals page). Three, just get the WP started and let start tagging pages, and as editors see the tags, and activity, they may add their particpation to the WP. We should decide what type of relationship to form with Wikipedia:WikiProject Rocks and minerals. The problem that I see is that the WP never got past the first problem of resolving on an infobox, and has stagnated. I am of the mind to combine projects with a merge, and cover rock and mineral subjects as well. While I am not a rock freak - I am from jewelry retail perspective - and wouldn't involve myself into minerology discussions, and the scope would grow greatly, it would maybe resolve some of the overlapping territory. A name for the project could be Wikipedia:WikiProject Minerology, Gemology, and Jewelry. We could maintain a sister-project relationship as another alternative. SauliH 06:17, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
part of an independant store with associations to org's that hold a high ethical standard. I want to protect anonymity somewhat. I do hold a GIA title in diamond grading.SauliH 23:42, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Welcome back! I had a great Xmas and New Year with all the busyness of the retail season and all, and family. With regards to your comment about procedures regarding starting a WP, there is no set procedure, although guidelines are given for best practice. Emphasis is placed on getting together a group of editors who are motivated to stick to it. I am part of a couple other WP's and have started one recently at WP:AUSTHIST (I am an Australian expatriate). I feel my strength is in some of the meta stuff, and organising resources for others to work from. I emphasize consistency in naming and presentation, and would be advocating ways to do this. Our initial objective would be to take stock of the breadth of coverage of Gems and jewelry, and lay out additional areas for initial stub creation and article development.
With relation to the border between gems and minerals. I tend to agree with you to maintain a sister project relationship (rather than a merge) with the minerals WP. We should not be concerned about treading on toes however, heck a sapphire is a gem in the minds of almost everyone out there, and needs to be tackled from that perspective primarily. The WP will provide a forum for discussion of article content should issues arise. Did you have any thoughts over your break? SauliH 06:21, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Moved the WP tonight. Find it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry. Did a lot of work to get a framework up, and managed to work out how the automatic tallying of assessed articles is done. SauliH 07:51, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Do you mean an infobox? On the project side I used the talk page project banner set up by WP:AUS to create Template:WP Gemology and Jewelry. I have been adding this to a number of pages, in the hope, that by doing so people will see it and jump on board. Where are you working on the templates, if I have any ideas while you develop it I can then provide some input. Tucson? No. I would love to get there some time, but we have other industry shows I get to, and they keep us busy. Fortunately we have awesome suppliers we source our color through. Cheers. SauliH 16:52, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Articles needing creation can be sorted out into various subpages which I just finished creating this morning. You can link to them in the banner where it says Gemstone Project page, Jewelry Project Page etc... At some point we should sort out the article list on the front page, and cull some of the crud in there (I pinched the topics from a websource). I will be more than happy to connect you to various WP pages. We should have a fairly robust tool for getting a handle on the whole WP subject area, and assessing the quality of articles. SauliH 19:07, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Essentially I created subpages at Wikipedia:WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry/Gemstones‎, andWikipedia:WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry/Jewelry‎, Wikipedia:WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry/Gemology‎, Wikipedia:WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry/Business‎, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry/People for us to list articles which need work. The redlinks from here should be moved over to the appropriate pages. Eventually we will cull the list down to just redlinks - once we see what areas are well covered. The Template:WP Gemology and Jewelry on the other hand is for categorizing the talk pages, as well as rating them for quality and importance to Wikipedia. The page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry/Assessment outlines this in detail. Hopefully this time I made more sense :) SauliH 21:12, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hey there!

Glad you enjoyed Tucson. One day I will get there. Thought I'd put a couple WP links up here for you, if you had not ventured there yet. To do Page, and Article List with Worklist.

You said something about the De Beers article being completely replaced with a new page. I had not been keeping a close eye on it, so if you link me to an edit comparison like this one I will take a look and see if we can reintroduce any old content into what is there now.SauliH 04:17, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to WikiProject France

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STTW (talk) 12:07, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gemnology

If I can help with the Gemmology project let me know. I have posted some PDF files of data that I have begun to assemble at: http://groups.google.com/group/gemology?lnk=iggc —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gemology (talk • contribs) 06:24, 12 April 2007

The above message was not from me, the user forgot to sign. Anyways all the best for the work on Gemnolgy! STTW (talk) 06:17, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sapphire requires attention

Hi there! I have just looked up the article Sapphire and found that the last two paragraphs of it (beginning with "all the things say about sapphires is not true") have a lot of grammatical mistakes and also questionable content. You can see in the history page, that a certain unsigned user (who added the last two paragraphs) also removed a lot of content. Since I do not really know my way around Wiki nor gems, I though that rather than changing it myself I would let someone know about the problem I found. I hope you don't mind.

Bye: Matyas 213.16.121.165 10:35, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

No problem.. will check it out ! Thanks !

Gem-fanat 20:20, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism of Christianity

I had thought about checking out those other sites at the same time, but with articles like this, it is rarely a good idea to remove controversial material (or links) all at once with little advance warning, even if you do have policy behind you. Infidel.org is a tricky case becase many of their articles are actually reposts of other, more notable, people's articles, and if I remember correctly, there was a fight a long time ago over skeptics annotated bible, I don't remember exactly how it all went down, but justifying the removal of it now could take quite some effort, and I don't contribute to the Criticism of Christianity article often. Homestarmy 17:04, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] dzi bead

Hi, I was only referencing a link that has been there before. You are welcome to make any changes to external links on dzi bead. Benjwong 19:14, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gemology

I sure would like to take up your offer. Neptunekh 07:21, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pearl of Lao-Tzu

Re: removal of spam. This was not meant to be spam. I've re-inserted the link for the "Ripley's believe It or Not". I would have uploaded the picture to Wikipedia, yet could not due to copyright. The pearlforpeace.org link was the only place to retrieve this picture.

[edit] Greek Agate

Ok I created and rewrote the Greek Agate article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_agate Can you please look at it and edit it? I change alot of the words. Thanks! Neptunekh 21:46, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Brazilian Garnet

I'm not sure if this is the proper way to leave a question but here goes: QVC has begun selling a gemstone they call a "Brazilian garnet." It is reddish-purple in color. Is this actually almandine? Does it even come from Brazil? Should there be a link from it to almandine or mention in the latter that almandines are also sold under the name "Brazilian garnet"? Thank you, Rissa (9/16/07).

-- Not quite sure... it could be spessartite as there were some recent finds of that garnet in Brazil, with very hoppered crystal form, and fairly large size. However if QVC means that particular garnet I am not sure.. they have so many trade names that usually try to either upgrade the material.. or associate the same material with a location that is more famous and hence often more valuable. By doing so, their material gets the appearance of a more valuable product as well, whereas in reality it is not. Gem-fanat 21:50, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

-- But yes all garnets in fact, including almandine, have been found in Brazil for a long time. Just thinking about spessartine since it was such a rave in the mineral world in the last 3-4 years.

[edit] WikiProject Newsletter n°1

Bonjour and welcome to the first WikiProject France newsletter!! It should become a monthly special of our project, but until the next issue, here are some points to consider for the month:

  • In an effort to determine the active members from the inactive, all members are asked to simply sign on my special userpage.
  • I have slightly rearranged and updated the Project page, putting all the featured lists in collapsible tables. This unclutteres the page and you only have to see them if you want to. Give your feelings at the talk page.
  • I have made a Wikipedia advert for our project, Image:Qxz-ad108.gif, what do you think? Personally I feel the words need improving ...
  • There are still map problems at Template:French commune - any help at resolving them would be greatly appreciated.
  • What about starting a monthly drive? We currently have no Featured Portals (except for the Basque Portal which really isn't French any way), so how about improving Portal:France??? I don't know what's exactly wrong but the criteria can be seen at Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria.

It doesn't seem like a lot, so I hope we will still have enough problems for nexts months issue. Salut till the next issue, ChrisDHDR (17:16, 10 November 2007 (UTC)).

[edit] WikiProject Newsletter n°2

It's been one high aiming month! The French WikiProject and related pages have been aiming high for Christmas - and have received an equal number of presents in return!

Well, that's this issue. Au revoir et à bientôt till the next time, ChrisDHDR (18:58, 9 December 2007 (UTC)).

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Morganite_from_Elizabeth_R_Mine_Pala,_San_Diego,_CA,_found_in_2005.jpg

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Added Rationale. Gem-fanat (talk) 16:38, 19 April 2008 (UTC)