Help with Sharpfinger article on Wikipedia?

MatthewVanitas

MatthewVanitas

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I've recently been building up a bunch of article stubs for Knife subjects on Wikipedia. There's some great coverage of Scandanavian and other traditional European knives, but very little info about classic American knives.

I set up a stub for the Sharpfinger, with just some very, very basic information. If anyone can add info, citatations from published sources, etc. that'd be outstanding. You don't even have to sign up for Wiki, you can just go to the page and hit the "Edit" tab to put in more info.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpfinger

You do have to be a member to upload a pic, but if someone has a good Sharpfinger pic you can direct me to it and I'll go and post it up.

Thanks for any help on putting info out there!
 
@ netdude65:

That helps a ton! It's a great pic, and really spruces up the article.

I went back and added info on Camillus and Schrade to the article, but more info is always good.

Anyone know of any famous figure, other than Sonny Barger, who was a big fan of the Sharpfinger?
 
Much appreciated, that adds a lot to the article.

I have a more general page asking for Wiki efforts over on General, so I'll go bump that and let folks see what a little BFC collaboration brings out.

My initial impetus was noticing that nobody ever created a page explaining Barlow knives (I'd looked them up, wondering about the origin). So I created pages for Barlow, Mercator K55K, Douk-Douk, Sharpfinger, etc.

If anyone can think of any other knives worth having a short encyclopedia article, I can go build stubs for those and ask for help in General.

Perhaps Traditional would have been a better forum to get expertise in, but I hoped that General might get more views, thus more aid. If the thread goes dead in General, I might start a new Wiki thread devoted to old slipjoints and fixed blades, and then put it into the Trad forum.

The article about Gravity Knives could really use some work too; I might go chop out most of it for a more general article about the category of Out-the-Front knives.
 
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