Wikipedia:WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry/Business
This page is a subtopic of Wikipedia:WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry, and is designed to enable the expansion and improvement of Gemology and Jewelry related articles.
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Tagging and categorising articles
[edit]Main page categories
[edit]The Gemology and Jewelry category structure is:
- Clear crystals
- Translucent crystals
- Colored stones
- Man-made gems
- Physical characteristics of gems
- Metaphysical characteristics of gems
- Pranic and Vedic meanings
- Modern metaphysics
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[edit]Articles related to Gemology and Jewelry should be tagged on the Talk page with {{WP Gemology and Jewelry}}
For full details about using this talk page template see Template:WP Gemology and Jewelry.
Categorizing
[edit]- Articles related specifically to Jewelry should be tagged on the Talk page with {{WP Gemology and Jewelry|jewelry=yes}}
- Articles related specifically to Gemstones should be tagged on the Talk page with {{WP Gemology and Jewelry|gemstones=yes}}
- Articles related specifically to Gemology should be tagged on the Talk page with {{WP Gemology and Jewelry|gemology=yes}}
- Articles related specifically to the business aspects of gems and jewelry, should be tagged on the Talk page with {{WP Gemology and Jewelry|business=yes}}
- Articles related specifically to people involved in gemology or jewelry, should be tagged on the Talk page with {{WP Gemology and Jewelry|people=yes}}
Rating Articles
[edit]When tagging articles, the articles class and importance can be rated. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry/Assessment for details on assessment guidelines.
- |class= |importance=
Class
[edit]The following values may be used for the class parameter:
- FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article Gemology and Jewelry pages)
Importance
[edit]The following values may be used for the importance parameter:
- Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Gemology and Jewelry articles)
- The parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA
Resources
[edit]- Many of the article headings listed below, were drawn from WinJewel dictionary online and Jewelry Glossary - Definition of Jewelry Terms
- For gemstone misnomers
- Gemology Dictionary
- World of gemstones
Article List
[edit]Mining and exploration
[edit]Other
[edit]Industry Associations
[edit]- Gemstone industry associations
- American Gem Society - dab - AGS
- Gemological Institute of America - dab - GIA
- Independant Jewelers Organization - dab - IJO
- Registered Jewelers Organization - dab - RJO
- Gemmological Association of Great Britain- dab - GAGB
- Gemmological Society of South Africa - dab - GSSA
- Gemology Institute of Southern Africa - dab - GISA
- National Association of Goldsmiths - dab - NAG
- British Jewellers Association - dab - BJA
- Tully Medal - award of the GAGB