Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Knots
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This article states that the New York Times mistakenly attributed the Pratt knot to Don Shelby. But the Times story referred to - on August 30, 1989 - which can be easily obtained by searching the headline "As Neckwear Goes, This Knot's News" and restricting the date range appropriately in the now-free New York Times archives - that article clearly not only mentions Mr. Pratt but attributes the Shelby-Pratt knot to him. Louis Massano. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.89.190.15 (talk) 07:16, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
Since it appears this project is inactive, I'm about to be bold. Johan Andersson 07:20, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Half hitch vs. Munter hitch
There's something funny about our treatment of the half hitch: it redirects to Munter hitch. See Talk:Munter hitch. --Smack (talk) 18:39, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Discussion on "Informal Guidelines on Editing Knotting Articles"
My thinking on this subject was influenced by my recent work on the Rolling hitch and Taut-line hitch articles. I wanted to record this stuff somewhere while it was fresh in my head, so I decided to add it to this project page. I am looking for others to modify or add to these basic ideas so that we can come up with a set of guidelines that allow unified progress toward better knotting articles. Hopefully these thoughts can form a starting point for a group concensus on the content and organization of knot articles. I look forward to your comments on and improvement of the guidelines. --Dfred 05:56, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Project Directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council is currently in the process of developing a master directory of the existing WikiProjects to replace and update the existing Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. These WikiProjects are of vital importance in helping wikipedia achieve its goal of becoming truly encyclopedic. Please review the following pages:
- User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory,
- User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory 2,
- User:Badbilltucker/Philosophy and religion Directory,
- User:Badbilltucker/Sports Directory,
- User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory,
- User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory/United States, (note: This page will be retitled to more accurately reflect its contents)
- User:Badbilltucker/History and society directory, and
- User:Badbilltucker/Science directory
and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope to have the existing directory replaced by the updated and corrected version of the directory above by November 1. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 22:44, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- Sorry if you tried to update it before, and the corrections were gone. I have now moved the new draft in the old directory pages, so the links should work better. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused you. B2T2 14:41, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
The old directory has been replaced. Please find the current updated directory at WP:PROJDIR. Badbilltucker 14:54, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Diagrams
We have Cat:Knot diagrams, which I've seeded with three of my own photos, plus everyone's favorite Flemish bend. Is there another collection of pictures, or should we run around and tag all of our pictures with this category? --Smack (talk) 06:01, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
- I just de-categorized Cat:Knot diagrams yesterday because it has been a category with only one entry since the first tag. Plus, your item are not diagrams, they are photographs. I'm not sure if having such a category will be helpful. Do other projects have their images in their own category? If so, I say go for it. Dddstone 12:41, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] New sample article
In its current state Bowline does not represent where I'd like to see knotting articles go: specifically the unwikified format, unencyclpedic tone, lack of references, and NPOV issues wrt tying methods. My feeling is that since it doesn't represent where we're headed, we should pick an article that does -- at least for the time being until Bowline's issues are addressed. I would nominate Constrictor knot to replace Bowline. It is a simple, useful knot and the article has most of the elements I would like to see in all knotting articles. Thoughts? --Dfred 05:45, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
- After continued work on the Constrictor article I have changed it to be the project's sample article. --Dfred 17:56, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 16:49, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Proposal to rename knot component articles
Due to potential overloading of terms, I'm proposing the articles on knot components (e.g. Bight (knot), Loop (knot)) be renamed with (knot component) instead of (knot). This clarifies the fact that these articles are not about knots themselves, which in the case of Loop (knot) is potentially confusing. After the rename Loop (knot) will become an article on the class of knots, rather than the component. --Dfred 20:07, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Portal:Textile Arts
This portal is currently undergoing its second Portal Peer Review, and your comments/feedback would be appreciated at the portal peer review subpage. Cirt (talk) 12:03, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Reasoning behind knots and splices
Paragraphs like that on splices "It is typically used for light lines (e.g., the log-line) where a single splice would tend to come undone, the rope being frequently wet." are extremely useful bits of information that explain why a knot or splice is used over another and for what reason. Not only are they an important part of the history and use of the knot or splice but essentially explain it's reason for existence and use over purely decorative designs. Propose more use cases and reasoning like this - as it is often something that is not written down. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.134.136.170 (talk) 22:18, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
