User talk:Mabalu/Archives/2015/October

Your GA nomination of Crinoline

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Crinoline you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Cirt -- Cirt (talk) 14:40, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Cirt - wonderful, really looking forward to working with you. I hope you'll enjoy the article, and please feel free to contact me with any comments or queries or requests for clarification. I should advise you that I'll be going away for a few days from Thursday through to the following Monday so please forgive if I am slow to respond. Mabalu (talk) 16:47, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Crinoline

The article Crinoline you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Crinoline for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Cirt -- Cirt (talk) 02:40, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thanks for being so polite and understanding of potential confusion during my GA review of Crinoline. I'm glad it was able to be successfully promoted to WP:GA quality -- you did a great job !!!

And thank you very much for your admirable quality improvement efforts to Wikipedia !

— Cirt (talk) 01:45, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Cirt - Thank you! It's my first ever GA - I did do some work on Green Versace dress of Jennifer Lopez to bring it up to GA status, but Dr. Blofeld did most of the work on that, so it's nice to have a GA I can truly say that I did. Mabalu (talk) 01:56, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

I didn't see it was your first GA. Congratulations!!! Here's hoping you help improve 116 more to WP:GA ! — Cirt (talk) 01:58, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Crinoline

The article Crinoline you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Crinoline for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Cirt -- Cirt (talk) 03:42, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

hello

Hello, how are you? What's wrong if you created a category (Women's Clothing designers) and (Sportswear designers) and (Designers children) as well as clothes (Popular Clothes designers) --Muhib mansour (talk) 14:05, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Muhib mansour - I'm sorry but I do not understand what you are trying to say. Mabalu (talk) 14:55, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

I mean you have create category (Men's Fashion designer), Why you did not create (Women's Clothing designers) , (Sportswear designers) , (children s wear Designers) and (Popular Clothes designers) , Because this was my idea, and I want to benefit from the English Wikipedia my thoughts --Muhib mansour (talk) 15:13, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

• There were enough articles to populate Category:Menswear designers. As I said in the deletion nomination, I could see an argument for such a category, although I disagreed with how you had gone about it. Although it was deleted, I felt it was a valid idea for a category, and subsequently created and populated a new category for the subject. As there are only 68 names in the category at the moment, there is no need to create sub-categories such as "American menswear designers" or "British menswear designers." The category is clearly defined as for designers who "specialise solely in menswear, or are particularly well-known as menswear designers (i.e., they have won significant awards or received substantial attention for their menswear.)"
• We do not need "Category:Womenswear designers" because it is taken for granted that a fashion designer does women's clothing. Doing womenswear is not unique or unusual enough to need a specific category.
• The discussion came to the conclusion that there are not currently enough articles on Wikipedia to make "Category:Children's clothing designers" a feasible category. Maybe when a few more articles on designers notable for designing children's clothing are added, then one can be created and populated. I personally would like to see such a category, but I think a few more articles on notable children's clothing designers need to be created first.
• I'm afraid nobody could understand what you meant by "Sporty designers." I'm sorry, but "Popular clothes designers" is realy unclear and I'm not sure anyone will know what you mean by this either. Mabalu (talk) 16:48, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Prairie skirt

That was one of my very early efforts, before citing sources was a thing. I remember them well from the 70s, very Ralph Lauren, based on 1830s fashion. But I'm not sure proper citations can be found. - PKM (talk) 19:57, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

PKM - I know exactly what you mean too, it's that sort of "peasant skirt"/maxi skirt/Laura Ashley ditsy-florally subjective term where people who know fashion have a pretty good idea exactly what is meant, but the average layman wouldn't have a clue, or would be utterly confused by. Very difficult to define, especially as each person would have their own opinion as to what a "prairie skirt" was or wasn't. Mabalu (talk) 20:15, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Reply about Crinoline pic swap

Upon another inspection as you asked, article still looks quite good. :)

Thank you very much, Mabalu, for your significant and admirable Quality improvement efforts in this area.

Suggestion: This suggestion is optional only, but I ask you to please at least read over the Good Article review instructions, and consider reviewing two to three (2-3) GA candidates from good articles nominations, for each one (1) that you nominate. Again, this is optional and a suggestion only, but please do familiarize yourself at least with how to review, and then think about it.

Thank you,

— Cirt (talk) 02:40, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Metal corset

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 31 October 2015 (UTC)