Talk:Amigurumi

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Not Knitting?[edit]

OzzieB made the edit to say that knitting is not amigurumi, yet the crochet magazine article linked from the end of this entry says that amigurumi can be either knit or crochet. Amigurumi books I've seen in Japanese seem to include both knitting and crochet. What is the source for the crochet-only definition? Vowofsilence 20:32, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

After more than a week of no response from OzzieB about the changes I decided to return the information about knitting and flesh out this page further. This page needs better references but most of mine are Japanese books I can't even really read. Maybe on day someone who reads Japanese can add some sources and flesh this page out. In the meantime, it will have to be a half-baked worked in progress. Vowofsilence 01:35, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Amigurumi can be knitted or crocheted. The trend in recent years (the last decade or so) has been for crocheted toys, but ami means to knit OR crochet. Furthermore I have some older amigurumi books that show both techniques. The unfortunate element of this type of subject, combined with the Wikipedia requirement for citing English sources, is that most reliable sources of information for amigurumi online are not in English! epsilonpilot —Preceding comment was added at 02:12, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

External Links[edit]

I have severe concerns about the external links on this article as per WP:ELNO (especially #5). They would probably be better removed and replaced with references. Kallimina (talk) 04:19, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead and removed some of the more commercial ELs to better comply with Wikipedia guidelines. Kallimina (talk) 04:44, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Most of the external links here are of at least questionable appropriateness. The links to "free patterns" and "tutorials" especially may violate WP:NOT as just being a bunch repository of links. WP:ELNO #5 certainly applies for a lot of the free pattern ones which just incidentally happen to have a free section among their pay sections.
The facebook group and livejournal are kind of bad (WP:ELNO #10). Interestingly enough it looks like the licensing on all the Flickr pictures would permit them all to be copied to Commons, at which point we could put a {{Commons}} link pointing to them. I'm not too sure about all of them though, but my general opinion is in terms of external links, "less is more". —/Mendaliv/2¢/Δ's/ 07:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Added citations[edit]

We will probably need a few more citations. I have a few English ami books, so I should be able to find some references. All help is appreciated. Kallimina (talk) 04:45, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Article on Japanese Wikipedia[edit]

I tried to find some info in the japanese article on the subject. It's even smaller and has no references as well - and I can't really read it either. I won't dare copy anything from there which I believe I understood and don't feel like I could be bold without sneaking in lots of (unreferenced) errors, but there's some (unreferenced) things that are not mentioned here. What does the guideline say for such situations? I'm not really familiar with it and not a regular contributor, so please don't bite... Se'taan (talk) 03:26, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to add it, I will try to find a source for it. The article is really missing some key points such as which yarns are best to use for making Amigurumi, in my opinion. I've got some suggestions from several ami books. I believe they're reliable sources. Now just gotta dig them up. Kallimina (talk) 02:46, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Imho, there's already sufficient citations in the article. On the other hand, it shouldn't become a howto (see what happened to Kumihimo). It'd already be a great deal of help if you just added the literature in a bibliography section (if not already among the notes, I guess?). It might just be too much of a hassle if you're going to search through the literature for citations. If you have some peace and quiet to write about widely used yarns etc., I'd appreciate to help if you like.
The japanese article only desribes the history (though, just two sentences, and I have no idea whether it's notable; still no references). I could add the content and you'd have a look at it (maybe better in a sandbox); but there's nothing about yarns or techniques whatsoever. Se'taan (talk) 22:28, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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