Help with Wikipedia articles about traditional knives?

MatthewVanitas

MatthewVanitas

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I've been doing some wiki-editing for knives and musical instruments recently, and noted that Wiki could use some more articles about traditional (especially American) knives. They actually have a goodly number of article about Philippine and Scandinavian knives, so apparently those folks are really on the ball.

Here's the list of current knife topics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Knives


I started the stubs for a few Euro knives: Mercator K55K, Okapi, Jacob's Ladder, and Douk-Douk (one of my personal favorite knives).

The Schrade BFC subforum helped me out with the Sharpfinger article, and it's turning out great: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpfinger

What I could really use:

-Suggestions as to knives that deserve their own article

-Suggestions on improvements to existing articles (I started a stub for Barlow knives, really surprised there wasn't an article about them already)

-Photos (public domain or your own work) for existing articles or possible future articles.

-Facts, especially with citations from published works, which can be added to articles.


What's missing from the current list of knives?
 
I think you should do a Russell Green River Works entry

Western Cutlery would be a good one as well

Buck Knives?

How about pissing everyone off and doing a Cold Steel entry!!?? :eek:
That would be awesome ;)

Or do one on so called "knock-offs" or "blatant rip off of Jimmy Reeves Striker design" that people here love to talk about so much..........

I got my 1st Pakistani Buck 110 blatant copy when I was about 12
I still got her
Wanna see pics???
 
A great idea, and I have to say, that the sharpfinger article turned out real well.

MatthewVanitas said:
-Suggestions as to knives that deserve their own article
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I think the Stockman pattern definitively deserves its own article.
And the peanut of course, since its usually underrated ;).
 
Okay, here are a few stubs upon which to build.

You don't need to be logged-on to make changes, just hit the "Edit" tab at the top of the Wiki page. Don't worry too much about the formatting, I can go back and neaten it up. If you have any photos that you want to share (your own pics, or public domain), post a link here and I'll upload it to Wiki.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_(knife)

(to get the skeleton for the Peanut article, I used the same categories as for Bowie, since that article was reasonably well organized) I especially like the "In Fiction" section. Anyone know of any fictional characters (or famous real figures) who favored the Peanut?

Didn't Tom Sawyer get excited about getting a "genuine barlow knife"? That definitely needs to be cited in the barlow article.


I think you should do a Russell Green River Works entry

Western Cutlery would be a good one as well

Buck Knives?

How about pissing everyone off and doing a Cold Steel entry!!??
That would be awesome
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No article yet for RGRW

Buck knives has an article, but it's most lacking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_knife





Cold Steel most definitely already has an entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Steel
 
Nothing traditional about some of the subjects.

Keep things trad. in this forum!!!!!!!!!
 
Here's an article where a lot of folks could help out:

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

I thought it would be good to branch this article out from the general "Pocketknife" article, so created a new one just for slippies.

The easy work is to go in and add/explain the individual models (stockman, toothpick, congress, etc) with a basic description, historical info, etc. Please feel free to just look over the article and add whatever you see fit, and if the info is good it'll develop along with the article.

I've created the Peanut article to see if an individual slipjoint can stand along as an article, but haven't really gotten any content for it yet. If we can add more to "Peanut", we can pick another slippie type and try to get an article's worth on that. Otherwise, we can just focus on Slipjoint article.

I also managed to get a good Douk-Douk article by just translating the French article and linking to its pics. Hoped to do the same with the K55K from German, but no such article yet.

Anything else, so far as Trad Knives, to be covered? Maybe an article on Friction Folders?
 
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