Wikipedia:WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry/Jewelry

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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

Main page categories

The Gemology and Jewelry category structure is:

Clear crystals
Translucent crystals
Colored stones
Man-made gems
Physical characteristics of gems
Metaphysical characteristics of gems
1. Pranic and Vedic meanings
2. Modern metaphysics

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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

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

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

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

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

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

Categories

Category:Jewellery

Article List

Metals and Metallurgy

Jewelry forms

Manufacture and Design

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