User:Heddles

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WikiProject Textile arts.

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I am focusing my efforts on the articles in the Textile Arts WikiProject. Specifically, I am currently trying to make a dent in the cleanup listing backlog.

Useful links

Cleanup listing for WikiProject Textile Arts (old listing)
General article layout: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout (Order of article elements)
End-of-article section formatting when using shortened references: Footnotes, notes, and references // Notes and references
WikiBlame
The Wikipedia Library: List of partners

Inline cleanup tags

Attribution

Clarity

Miscellaneous

Neutrality

Precision

{{By how much}} {{Definition}} {{Definition span}} {{Definition needed}} {{Example needed}} {{Example needed span}} {{Explain}} {{Explain-wrap}} {{From where}} {{How}} {{How often}} {{Misquoted}} {{More detail needed}} {{Of what}} {{Quantify}} {{Specify}} {{Vague}} {{When}} {{Where}} {{Where-geo}} {{Which}} {{Who else}} {{Why}} {{Year needed}}
Excessive	{{Duplication span}} {{Globalize inline}} {{Importance example}} {{Importance inline}} {{Infobox clutter}} {{List entry too long}} {{Long quote}} {{Off topic paragraph}} {{Off topic sentence}} {{Overly detailed inline}} {{Over-explained}} {{Relevance inline}} {{Undue weight inline}}

Time-sensitivity

Verifiability

Dubious	{{Contradictory inline}} {{Discuss}} {{Disputed inline}} {{Dubious}} {{Dubious span}} {{Inconsistent}} {{Needs independent confirmation}} {{Speculation inline}}
Bare URLs	{{Bare URL inline}} {{Bare URL AV media}} {{Bare URL DOC}} {{Bare URL image}} {{Bare URL non-HTML}} {{Bare URL PDF}} {{Bare URL plain text}} {{Bare URL spreadsheet}}
Incomplete or broken citation	{{Author incomplete}} {{Author missing}} {{Broken footnote}} {{Date missing}} {{Dead link}} {{Dead YouTube link}} {{Deep link needed}} {{Edition needed}} {{Episode needed}} {{Full citation needed}} {{Incomplete short citation}} {{ISBN missing}} {{Missing long citation}} {{Moved resource}} {{Page needed}} {{Pages needed}} {{Permanent dead link}} {{Place missing}} {{Publisher missing}} {{Season needed}} {{Time needed}} {{Title incomplete}} {{Title missing}} {{Unused source}} {{Volume needed}} {{Year missing}}
Missing or problematic reference	{{Additional citation needed}} {{AI-generated inline}} {{AI-generated source?}} {{AI-retrieved source}} {{Better source needed}} {{Better source needed example}} {{Check quotation}} {{Chronology citation needed}} {{Circular reference}} {{Circular reporting}} {{Citation needed}} {{Citation needed span}} {{Citation needed paragraph}} {{Citation not found}} {{Close paraphrasing inline}} {{COI source}} {{Deprecated inline}} {{Excessive citations inline}} {{Failed verification}} {{Failed verification span}} {{Image reference needed}} {{Independent source inline}} {{Irrelevant citation}} {{Marketing material}} {{Medical citation needed}} {{Medical citation needed span}} {{Misplaced footnote}} {{Nonspecific}} {{Not verified in body}} {{Not verified in body span}} {{Obsolete source}} {{Page range too broad}} {{Primary source inline}} {{Promotional source}} {{Quote without source}} {{Request quotation}} {{Request quotation span}} {{Retracted}} {{Scientific citation needed}} {{Self-published inline}} {{Self-published source}} {{Shallow reference inline}} {{Tertiary source inline}} {{Text-source inline}} {{Independent source inline}} {{Unreliable source?}} {{Unreliable fringe source}} {{Unreliable medical source}} {{Unreliable scientific source}} {{User-generated inline}} {{User-generated source}} {{Verify quote}} {{Verify source}} {{Whose quote}}

Wording

General advice

Help:Searching

To search pages contained within a category and all children categories, use: deepcat:[parent category]. For example, deepcat:"Textile arts" ibidem

Resources for new users

"Five Pillars" (Wikipedia): the fundamental principles of Wikipedia
"How" (The Signpost): a more in depth version of "Five Pillars"

Pending tasks

A personal list of things I'd rather not forget to do.

Kalamkari: copyedit
Butterick Publishing Company: copyedit, add content
Hmong textile art: copyedit, in particular Hmong textile art#Refugee experience
Natural dye: convert shortened references to links to "Bibliography" entries?
Textiles of Sumba: copyedit, clean up/format references
Ventile / Calendering (textiles): expand using info from Handbook of Technical Textiles (2000), p. 284-286, p. 153-157
Māori traditional textiles#Kahu kurī: rewrite section
Braiding machine: continue copyedit, add references
Tsujigahana: add more history content, copyedit
DREF friction spinning: add references, verify content, copyedit
Merge even-weave and balanced plain weave (see Talk:Even-weave)
Singer Model 27 and 127: cleanup references and remove use of "ibidem"

Notable article contributions

Added missing info boxes to all biographies in Template:Textile designers
Added per-episode artist/location information to Craft in America#Episodes