Talk:Stitch London

Establishing notability

I am very confused.

Can you tell me what I have done wrong with my page please? I understand it might be something about it being a group. Do I need to prove we are notable? I can refer you to Time Out, Vogue Magazine, and several websites, as well as television coverage.

Lauren O'Farrell

Beagleskin 14:31, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Please do!!!

Most wikipedians do not have crystal balls, so you should really point to the sources, and references to magazines/journals/TV appearances - please read WP:N beforehand. Ivansanchez 14:33, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Is there any specific way that I should put references on the page?

Or should I just list a few?

I meant to put a signiture there. Sorry I am just getting used to this!

--Beagleskin 14:36, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Don't worry. Breathe deeply, and take it slow.

Wikipedia has some standards for citing references. Please read WP:CITE for the style, and WP:CITET for the most common citation templates.

In the meantime, I'm setting up a "work-in-progress" template. Remove it when you have finished editing, no hurries.

Ivansanchez 14:43, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Ok. I have put in a fair few. The most recent and the most notable.

I hope they are ok.

What do I do now? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Beagleskin (talk • contribs) 15:21, August 27, 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, the references are wonderful.

What to do now? Well, you can go out and have some beers :-P

Now seriously: you should have a look at WP:TPA and WP:MOS - your article could use some formatting touchs.

And please do not make it sound like an advert (e.g. "The group will also teach beginners for FREE!!!") - try to give factual information, not adverts or personal opinions, nor ad-like sentences.

And also, feel free to improve any other wikipedia articles. Have you considered joining Wikipedia:WikiProject_Textile_Arts ??

Cheers, Ivansanchez 15:34, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

--Beagleskin 15:34, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks very much. You have been very helpful. :)

I will look into the formatting thing (and change a few bits to make it sound less advertlike)

Thank you. --Beagleskin 15:35, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Glad to help!!! Ivansanchez 15:51, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

One more question. Does the article go onto the site as soon as it is done? Should I be able to type it into the search and it appears or does it take a while or have to be approved?--Beagleskin 16:08, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

As soon as you hit the "save page" button, the article is live - how do you think I noticed about it? ;-)

However, search engines (such as google, etc) may take some time to index the information. There is no "approval process" of any kind - if something is wrong, it will be changed afterwards. Ivansanchez 16:20, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you again.--Beagleskin 17:02, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Confused

What makes this page significant? Do any stitch and bitch groups get there own page as long as they have press? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.249.17.100 (talk) 14:45, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Any group or topic that meets Wikipedia's notability requirements may have its own article, and this particular group meets those requirements. Topics that do not meet the notability requirements on their own may also be spun-out of larger articles if they get so long they don't fit inside the larger article anymore. Related topics that meet the notability requirements but are not fleshed-out in the Wikipedia article may be grouped together as an editorial decision - it is much more informative for readers to see a small article on a group of related topics than to have to look at many different stubs of articles for the same information.

I hope that helped. Lyrl^Talk _C 22:40, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Update Needed (January 2019)

Stitch London seems to have ceased operation in 2013, although it still seems to exist on social media (there seem to be regular posts to the Facebook and Twitter accounts, but the Ravelry group is somewhat inactive). Reference: https://stitchandbitchlondon.wordpress.com/2017/06/01/1305/ (Stitch London blog post announcing the end of the group)

- Heddles (talk) 03:52, 12 January 2019 (UTC)