Talk:History of candle making

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Every one of those related links should be removed.

[edit] To be deleted?

According to "BrownHairedGirl" (30th March 2008) this article is under consideration for deletion. According to "DGG" it is notable and sourcable. Assuming "BrownHairedGirl" is correct then, yes I wrote it originally, and I did so at a time (Nov 2005) when it was not a requirement for any sources to be given. Indeed the main Wikipedia "crime" at that time was to commit "copyvio" i.e. using sources too literally. For me to go through the article again and retrieve all those sources from the web and add them to an appendix of sources is almost like asking me to write it again from scratch. I can't be bothered. I am happy for this article to be deleted. Certainly I have seen far worse but my priorities are currenly elsewhere. Ogg (talk) 18:23, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Without commenting on what the policy regarding citations was at any given time, may I request at least a few pointers as to where you might have gotten some info you used for sources? It isn't a requirement that the sources be put in by the person who wrote the article, although that is of course helpful...others can pick it up and make the article better. If you have any ideas where to get other editors started, that would be helpful. Isaacsf (talk) 18:37, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

I've added references for the first paragraph, using a google books search, I'll look for more in the next few days. ascidian | talk-to-me 23:31, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps I was naive, but I went through all the major countries of the world and searched Google as follows:

• candles France earlist
• candles China earliest, etc

This yielded about 50 references. Am I going to go through the whole process again? Sure as heck no.Ogg (talk) 03:19, 1 April 2008 (UTC)