Talk:Spinning jenny

message: This hasn't been added to Wikipedia:Requested_moves#14_July_2005, so it is difficult to know the reason for the suggested move. A google search suggests that 'Spinning Jenny' is frequently capitalised, although the article itself doesn't appear to realise this. -- Solipsist 06:18, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  User:Noisy | Talk 20:08, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggested page move

message: Some of the dates in the article don't seem to make sense. "...Hargreaves applied for a patent on the jenny in July 1859." and in the next paragraph "...Hargreaves' death on 22 April 1778."  I was trying to use the page for homework but I don't know what dates are correct.
It was probably just a typo, maybe someone should look it up. It might be 1878 instead of 1778.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.245.197.176 (talk) 04:22, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  dates 

message: This article cites no sources
64.126.164.3 08:48, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: The content itself is not wrong, but it does not flow properly.  I would suggest setting up a different content order to make it more organized. 
:	- Origin and Myth 
:	- History 
:	- Components 
:	- Operation
:	- Growth and Patents 
:	- Success and Improvements (after Hargreaves) 
Add a little bit of information on his death: It is estimated that by the time James Hargreaves died in 1778, over 20,000 Spinning-Jenny machines were being used in Britain. Fabihumanities (talk) 21:28, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Please go for it.--ClemRutter (talk) 23:47, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  improvements  

message: I have reverted multiple well meant edits- but each needs a clarification
: Article is in British English- about a British topic- neighbour not neighbor (sic)
: Article uses Harvnb references- this should be maintained.
: Reference Friedel 2007 no ISBN no page numbers
: His- rather than her- Saxony wheel operating  was a  female task, but the mule in a mill became a male task.
: Blackburn is now a industrial town- if the source uses the term city, it draws doubt on its scholarship, ringing alarm bells. In the UK, city is a very specific term 
: It should also be noted that this entire operation was hand powered- superfluous, anyway should be operations
: Removing a reference
: At the time .... weak yarn- looks like a cut and paste and thus a COPYVIO. These needs to be checked before it can be inserted
: The operation of the machine was very similar to the spinning wheel, and home spinners were able to adapt to the machine quickly- tosh. Written by an observer that had done neither.
: If the author feels that Shipley or Peel, is significant to add than they need to be wikilinked.
There is still work to be done on the reception of the jenny- that needs to be a separate section as mentioned in  Fabihumanities post. Before trying to post to a mature if flawed textile history article one needs to carefully read the 19th century secondary sources . Since then there has been a whole series of romantic reinterpretation of the facts, as the topic has been embroidered for primary school history courses in every English speaking country.--ClemRutter (talk) 10:45, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Friedel, Robert. "A Culture of Improvment" MIT press, 2007 as a source 

message: Is there any device in India that is similar to the spinning jenny 2405:201:6817:13E:F842:BABC:F2F7:AA71 (talk) 16:48, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  History