User talk:Diary of a Dress Historian

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, please see our help pages, and if you can't find what you are looking for there, please feel free to ask me on my talk page or place {{Help me}} on this page and someone will drop by to help. Again, welcome! MartinPoulter (talk) 17:16, 3 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the warm welcome, Martin!

The information provided will prove immensely useful in gaining experience as a Wikipedian, in enabling the contribution of information and articles.

Very excited to be here, and look forward to being part of the community! Thank you again! Diary of a Dress Historian (talk) 13:38, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Idea for article improvement

Hello,

I was wondering if you can work on the Crinoline, Hoop skirt, Ball gown and Corset articles? They may be up your alley and expertise.

Thanks!

Urbanracer34 (talk) 16:26, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Urbanracer34! Thank you kindly for your note on articles - will take a look and see if I'm able to help :)

Hope you have a wonderful week! Diary of a Dress Historian (talk) 10:35, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Diary of a Dress Historian Thanks for taking a look at them. Have a wonderful week! Urbanracer34 (talk) 14:51, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Dress history

Hello! Your submission of Dress history at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 19:27, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thankyou @BlueMoonset! Diary of a Dress Historian (talk) 10:35, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Archie Brennan (weaver)

Hallo Lucy, welcome to Wikipedia, and thanks for expanding the little stub I contributed to about Brennan - as you can see from the edit summaries, a couple of us were listening to Radio 4 one morning in 2021!

You might like to join us at WP:WikiProject Women in Red, a WikiProject devoted to making women more visible in Wikipedia: I'm sure there are plenty of WP:NOTABLE women in your subject area of dress history. Each month there are a handful of "editathons" to focus attention on specific areas, and I try to create at least one article for every editathon, sometimes going way outside my areas of knowledge. A couple I've started are Florence Wallace Pomeroy, Viscountess Harberton and Jenny Sacerdote.

I worked at Leeds University Library for 26 years, early-retiring 20 years ago next week, so it's always interesting to see people from there editing here. Happy Editing! PamD 16:33, 23 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

And in the way Wikipedia time-sinks work, I've now created a section in University of Papua New Guinea to explain the the National Arts School merged into it, and the redirect from National School of Arts (Papua New Guinea) so we can link it from the Brennan article!

Couple of little things: don't forget that section titles only use capital letters for first letter and proper nouns, and watch out for "curly" apostrophes or quotes. I've fixed a few little things. There's a lot to learn about editing Wikipedia but it's an interesting journey! PamD 17:19, 23 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you also (for your second note!) on layout and content advice, which is always very greatly appreciated, and kindly received. There is definitely much to learn! So wonderful to have so many supportive, encouraging, and generous fellow editors like yourself, Pam. Thank you again! Diary of a Dress Historian (talk) 10:32, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Pam! Thank you ever so much for your kind note - it is lovely to meet, and work with, you here! So wonderful what can bring us together! And a small world indeed; amazing that you worked at the University of Leeds Library!!

Thank you for the advice on WikiProject groups and articles which you have created - wow!

Hope you have a wonderful week :) Diary of a Dress Historian (talk) 10:31, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Talk pages

Hi again! An amazing burst of activity at the weekend: great to see! I've been saying that new users need to state on the Talk page what they are doing to an article if they are making a substantial change, and I'm pleased to say that you should no longer think of yourself as a new user! Anyone looking at your contribution record will see that you are making substantial improvements to a lot of articles, adding historical context and additional information. So you only need to post on the Talk page if you're making or proposing a really radical change (say, to delete a large part of an article or radically restructure it). Hope this saves you time. Cheers, MartinPoulter (talk) 14:55, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Make-Do and Mend

On 16 August 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Make-Do and Mend, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that during the Second World War, the British government's campaign Make-Do and Mend (poster pictured) encouraged the public to fashion men's clothes into womenswear? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Make-Do and Mend. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Make-Do and Mend), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 00:02, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wonderful and evocative article. Thank you so much for your many recent contributions to textile history. No Swan So Fine (talk) 12:18, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No edits?

Hello. I noticed you haven't edited in a while. Is everything OK? Urbanracer34 (talk) 16:28, 7 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Dress history

On 24 September 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Dress history, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that much of the research in dress history has been done from documents, illustrations, and photographs rather than by studying items of clothing? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Dress history. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Dress history), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:02, 24 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]