Talk:Veiqia

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Further material

Jacobs, Karen. This Is Not a Grass Skirt : On Fibre Skirts (liku) and Female Tattooing (veiqia) in Nineteenth Century Fiji, Sidestone Press, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/york-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5979977. (I got up to p.46) Lajmmoore (talk) 07:03, 10 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

~~good image p.47 Lajmmoore (talk) 07:43, 22 September 2024 (UTC)~~[reply]

~~& p.105 Lajmmoore (talk) 19:45, 22 September 2024 (UTC)~~[reply]

p.140 - names of tattooed Fijian women, Wikidata? Lajmmoore (talk) 20:19, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WiG minireview

Setting up for review Mujinga (talk) 13:13, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies for the delay, getting to this now Mujinga (talk) 15:33, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is an interesting article which I think could be a good article with a bit of work. Since it's on a fairly unique topic it's hard to think of a template to follow (I mean if you want to write a GA on an actor or football match there's plenty of other articles which are already GAs and could be used as a template). So the sections could I think be combined more, but I don't have a template to suggest. That's also possibly something to sort out at the review stage, otherwise I'll say merge the mythology section and then the reviewer will insist you put it back!

There's a few things which could be hyperlinked and a few sentences I thought could be reworded, so I've done that but feel free to undo the changes if you don't like them.

There's quite a lot of fijian words so it can be a bit confusign at times and at points I'd like more explanation eg what "masi, tabua or liku" are. Yes I could click through but it's good to explain here as well. On a similar tip, i think it's worth saying where the Peabody Essex Museum and the Pitt Rivers are located.

Earwig copyvio check turns up nothign, article is stable, references seem good on a quick check (altho a few lack "work="), pic is in public domain, all good!

Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section, the lead shoudl summarise the article's contents. It does do that and one paragraph is ok, but it coudl perhaps be expanded a bit, maybe mention museums by name or Julia Mage’au Gray. "make the tools, some of which were reserved for use on high status women" isn't mentioned in body.

All in all a fascinating article and worth putting forward for review in my opinion. Good luck! Mujinga (talk) 16:14, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much for your thoughts Mujinga - this is really helpful. I don't think I'll be working on it imminently, but it's great to know you think it has potential. Lajmmoore (talk) 21:09, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I finally got round to working on this 3 years later @Mujinga - thanks so much for your advice in 2021! Lajmmoore (talk) 21:42, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Nundua, seated, veiqia tattoos visible at her hips

... that when young Fijian women reached puberty, their hips were tattooed with veiqia (pictured)? Source: "In nineteenth-century Fiji, when a girl reached puberty, she was tattooed in a secluded enclosure by a daubati (female specialist)." https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv18kc0px.19 & for hips, see " following account of tatuing (veinggia) is brief and incomplete partly because it is a custom restricted to the female sex and then confined to that portion of the body surrounding the pudendurn muliebre and adjacent areas which are covered by the short fringe skirt (liku)" https://www.jstor.org/stable/2790097
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Baguia Fort
- Comment: ~~QPQ is forthcoming, but didn't want to forget to nominate this article~~ QPQ done

Improved to Good Article status by Lajmmoore (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 107 past nominations.

Lajmmoore (talk) 20:55, 13 October 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Recent GA. Article is well-referenced throughout with no copyvio detected. Hook is interesting and referenced. Image confirmed to be PD. Good to go with the QPQ done. Juxlos (talk) 06:54, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Some cleanup in re GOCE request

Did some simple cleanup of wording and punctuation for style and smooth English reading. No content changes.

Looks good. I call it good enough for blessing by someone more senior. Here.it.comes.again (talk) 04:03, 16 November 2024 (UTC) Here.it.comes.again (talk) 04:03, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much @Here.it.comes.again - the changes really help and I appreciate the time and effort that goes in Lajmmoore (talk) 11:17, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]