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Merge with Watch?

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Currently, there's no separate wristwatch page, just watch. It seems like this article could productively be merged in to the history sections about the wristwatch specifically. Currently, there's a confusion separation across articles of discussion of trench watches, "wristlets" (which exists as a disambig page), and wristwatches. Flagging this for future interested parties. Suriname0 (talk) 16:45, 24 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Reliable source for Rolex trench watch claim

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Hey User:Opok2021, thanks for trying to improve the sourcing on the trench watch and Rolex articles around their WWI production of watches.

  • Regarding the Forbes Contributor piece, this is unfortunately a self-published source. See WP:FORBESCON for how to identify self-published Forbes pieces; unfortunately, this is basically someone's personal blog. We could potentially include it if the author was independently known as an expert on the topic, but I couldn't verify that here.
  • The original source that myself and another editor removed was to an online storefront. First, it doesn't have a lot of the qualities we look for in a reliable source, such as a clear author and publication date, or evidence of editorial oversight. We should avoid links to online storefronts (see WP:VENDOR), because they can be mistaken for WP:CITESPAM and are often less reliable than independent sources.
  • Okay, but to the actual issue at hand: did Rolex make trench watches during WWI? I would love to add this claim if we can support it, but I don't see any clear evidence in reliable sources that it's true. For example, there are no hits on JSTOR, Google Scholar, Wikipedia:Newspaperarchive.com, or the Wikipedia Library for "trench watch" + Rolex. None of the sources I could find on Google (like the Forbes piece, or various online store-fronts) cite any sources that we could consult. I found two mentions in opinion pieces in The Mail on Sunday, which we also can't use as a reliable source (WP:MAILONSUNDAY). I suspect we may need to consult older non-digital sources to support this claim. But for now, I'm coming up empty.

Suriname0 (talk) 01:49, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your response and help. There don't seem to be any sources I can use. I'll try and find some, but they are very few and far between. Opok2021 (talk) 15:10, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]