Talk:Oilskin
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[edit] Why stub?
- How come this has been marked as a stub? It's not exactly War & Peace, but it seems like a fair article. --Pete 22:40, 8 April 2005 User:137.205.31.138
- No answer, so I've removed the marker. PeteVerdon
- Just a note that it would seem that this article does need a bit of expansion in the historical direction. Say like the leathers coated with oils in Viking and medevil times and such. -DB 21:58, 4 January 2006 User:216.54.54.226
- Should "waxed jacket" be merged into this article? // Habj 23:33, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
- No. It's something entirely different. Does what the guys in the picture are wearing look anything like this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by PeteVerdon (talk • contribs) 20:30, 4 May 2006
[edit] Move/Replace
- On second thoughts, after reading both DB's and Habj's comments, there might be a better way to lay these things out. The current article on sailing clothing should probably be at oilskins, with an 's', while a future article on the waterproofed fabric should be here at oilskin and include a "see also" or a link in the text, pointing to the sailing one. The oilskin article can then go into excruciating detail about canvas, oil, leather and vikings, and even mention waxed jackets if it likes. I'm not going to make this rearrangement just yet, though, as there's very little text about the material in the article. If it interests you, go ahead and add it, then you or I can split out the sailing stuff once there's enough fabric stuff to make an article on its own. PeteVerdon 20:49, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Oilskin is a fabric
- This article is talking about expensive clothing for sailors, not about the oilskin fabric. It seems wrong to have it under the heading "oilskin". Mountain climbers and explorers wore oilskins in the 1800s to survive extreme terrain.
- At the very least, there should probably be a disambiguation page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.162.100.52 (talk • contribs) 14:55, 19 May 2006
- Agreed, as I said above. However, there seems no point in moving the existing page leaving behind an empty article. If someone wants to write a piece about the fabric they should do so, and move most of the current article to oilskins or, at a pinch, oilskins (sailing). PeteVerdon 21:22, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
