Talk:Mitten

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We should look at some of the cultural diversity in c:Category:Mittens for inspiration in expanding this article.--Pharos (talk) 19:31, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Pharos, Good point! Gallery started with a diversity of mittens. -- Fuzheado | Talk 19:47, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks to both of you for this. Long overdue, and I love it! Jane (talk) 12:16, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by The C of E (talk) 09:31, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

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• ... that the earliest known mitten was found in Dorestad and dates to the 8th or 9th century? Source: [1]
  • ALT1:... that mittens are part of Latvia's national costume? Source: [2] [3]

• Comment: My 5th nomination, so I believe this is the last one where I am exempt from QPQ. I will work on the article a bit more, but nominating now to meet the deadline.

Converted from a redirect by Fuzheado (talk) and Pharos (talk). Nominated by LordPeterII (talk) at 20:41, 29 January 2021 (UTC).

• This article doesn't meet the DYK size requirement; it is only 1079 characters—well below the 1500-character minimum. Sorry! MeegsC (talk) 17:30, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

• @LordPeterII: You may want to rectify this quickly. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 19:50, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

• Oh, I totally missed that! Sorry. However, it seems like the DYK check did not account for the entire "types" section because it was a bulleted list. I have removed the bullet points (for now; I want to rewrite that a bit anyway), so afaik it now passes the limit. Not sure if this is considered cheating MeegsC and The C of E, but I feel like that is readable text. If you can allow the nomination to stay here a bit, I will work on the article further. If not, well then just remove the nomination. --LordPeterII (talk) 14:33, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

• OK, I'll leave this here to stop it getting closed prematurely. I don't have time to check it at the moment, might be able to later. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 16:13, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

• Thanks. However, I now realize that the article is in a worse shape than I thought, with several sections badly sourced or outdated. The first hook might actually not be accurate as per this source [4], but I wasn't aware of this until just now. If you can bear with me, I will try to get the article in better shape. Feel free to start the review, but I believe it currently would not pass all quality criteria. --LordPeterII (talk) 14:02, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

• @The C of E: Thanks again for the help, but I'm afraid I'll withdraw the nomination now anyway. The article is now being heavily edited (thanks Obama Senator Sanders!), and I can not guarantee its integrity for DYK. Also, I have other projects and things to do irl, so... yeah I withdraw this. Maybe once it is a good article we can try again :) --LordPeterII (talk) 09:28, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

• As you wish. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 09:30, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

• @LordPeterII: If this article makes it to GA, please bring it back to DYK. --evrik ^(talk) 16:53, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

In popular culture section is bloated

Greetings fellow editors,

so I'm currently trying to prep the article for DYK, and while I must say I'm glad I'm not editing alone, I feel like the "in popular culture" section in its current form is a bad example of what WP:POPCULTURE warns about (you could also point to the more official WP:HTRIVIA). I mean, it's certainly interesting to hear about Ukrainian folk songs and nursery rhymes and domestic cats wandering around, this is distracting a bit from the main subject of the article: An article of clothing. And most of these things named "mitten sth" actually already have their own articles, so the information will be available even if not included here.

@Pureriviera, you are right that interest is probably fueled by the Senator Sanders meme (although, surprisingly, I found it via the new article bot), and I would want that part to stay since it involves the clothing specifically (it just atm lacks a citation). However, I would want to remove most of the other entries there, as they can be found via the disambiguation link at the top of the article. I hope you understand and agree. --LordPeterII (talk) 17:30, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

I didn't intend or expect everything I added to the section to stay there; I wanted to suggest a breadth of ways mittens appear in popular culture in order to guide subsequent edits. However, I think the nursery rhyme should stay because it's a poem about and for children, so it reveals that mittens have historically been worn by children, who have had a habit of losing them (hence the 'idiot mittens' mentioned above). Pureriviera (talk) 14:41, 3 February 2021 (UTC)