Talk:Sew Fast Sew Easy

message: This entire article was written by the staff members of Sew Fast Sew Easy as well as the Stitch N Bitch edits. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.51.174.114 (talk • contribs) 19:07, June 21, 2011
This looks very nice - I don't think you'll have any problems getting the main Wikipedia space unprotected so you can put this article there.
I look forward to seeing a few formalized references from the history section - three or four with more specifics like exact date  or issue number of the magazine, and page numbers, is in my opinion all the article needs.
My only quibble is that you'll need to remove the Chicago group from the external links section - that group is patently not associated with Sew Fast Sew Easy (). LyrlTalk     C   01:46, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion to recreate article

message: Referenced information critical of the company as well as information concerning a boycott of Sew Fast/Sew Easy has been removed, and I suspect it will continue to be.Zombiersv (talk) 08:45, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I somewhat agree with Ggarvin that the detail provided by Zonbiersv's edit just duplicated the content at the Stitch 'n Bitch article.  However, I do think it would be appropriate to just mention that they are involved in a conflict (possibly just incorporate this into the timeline?  2005 - Company initiates legal dispute with United States knitter's groups over the service mark Stitch and Bitch).  How do others feel about this? LyrlTalk     C   14:29, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The trademark dispute content is repeated on Debbie Stoller's page, there should probably be something about it here as well, or removed from both. Zombiersv (talk) 05:08, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

text: Sew Fast Sew Easy is involved in a legal dispute and took the first legal action.  I'm not following how that isn't "initiating a legal dispute".  In the absence of a resolution to that question, saying Sew Fast Sew Easy owns or is taking action to protect the brand violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy.  Wording such as "to further its claim of ownership" can be used that acknowledges Sew Fast Sew Easy's claims but does not report them as fact. LyrlTalk     C   03:10, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Stitch and bitch dispute

message: =I am trying to add the fact that we were in the NY Historical Society. I have PDFs from the exhibit, pictures which showcase our pattern line and other pictures that support the evidence. What is need for validity. This was not a press writeup but all of the information is made by the NY Historical Society and not edited in any way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.202.64.180 (talk • contribs) 
:, as you've written written that you've been trying add mention of Sew Fast Sew Easy patterns being featured a NY Historical Society exhibition (but have met with some objections), I'm assuming that you and  are one and the same. Please correct me if I am wrong.
:Although I would argue that the inclusion of the Sew Fast Sew Easy patterns is really quite trivial - as is much in the timeline (a charge I've made before) - my objection rests on the support material. Simply put, I do not see how a previously unpublished photograph of a number of sewing related products, featuring no indication as to date or place, containing no sign of connection with the NY Historical Society, credited to an employee of Sew Fast Sew Easy, in any way meets Wikipedia's verifiability policy. Moreover, I suggest that its use also runs counter to policies concerning original research and that the act of its inclusion flies in the face of the conflict of interest behavioral guideline. I note that since my last edit - the first in over two months - the image has been returned, along with two more documents intended to support the statement that Sew Fast Sew Easy sewing patterns and online classes were "featured in NY Historical Society". The first, which appears to be a sewing pattern, contains no such information. Described in the article as an "EXHIBITION HANDOUT", it contains no indication that this is so, nor does the name "NY Historical Society" appear. The second, which appears to be a handbill for an exhibition held by the New-York Historical Society, contains no mention of Sew Fast Sew Easy. Obviously, neither can be used to support the statement.
:Now, for my personal opinion. I think it likely that packages of patterns for Sew Fast Sew Easy were indeed displayed at an exhibition held by the New-York Historical Society. But this is an encyclopedia and not a collection of personal opinions and hunches. And, again, is this not the most trivial of accomplishments? Victoriagirl (talk) 21:38, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for clarification. I will research to see if I am able to get the complete handout from the event. I believe that the inclusion of this information on the company is again a display of Sew Fast Sew Easy's contribution to changing the face of the sewing industry. This company is specifically geared to using technology to advance the face of the industry and make things easy for fashion sewing. As the first company to offer custom-computer fit sewing patterns, online video learning and its own sewing pattern line, the later two are the reason we were featured in the exhibit.--151.202.64.180 (talk) 23:39, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Sew Fast Sew Easy featured in the NY Historical Society

message: It's usually discouraged add categories to an article that are closely related (parent/daughter) to the article's current categories.  When possible, it is also preferred to use a broader parent category instead of numerous daughter categories.  For example, :category:knitting, :category:embroidery, and :category:crochet are all immediate daughters of :category:needlework.  Instead of having three daughter categories (knitting, embroidery, crochet), it would be better to have just the one parent category (needlework).  :category:needlework and :category:sewing are both immediate daughters of :category:textile arts.  So inclusion in textile arts makes the other four categories redundant.
Also, categories like "books" and "trademarks" are intended for articles about books and trademarks.  Not articles about people who write books (that's :category:writers) and not articles about companies that own trademarks (that would be part of :category:companies).  Sew Fast Sew Easy is about a company owned by someone who is also a writer, which seems like too distant a connection to be a basis for categorization.
I hope this explains my reversion of the recent category additions. LyrlTalk     C   23:30, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overcategorization 

message: An IP editor  made several deletions and other changes to the article with the following comment:
:made changes to the article based on fact. Some of the references which were not supported have been removed
I restored the company logo, and I am inclined to restore much of the other referenced material that was deleted, but I would be grateful for the opinions of other editors. Eastmain (talk • contribs)  06:21, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: An IP editor's deletions

message: I removed the Stitch & Bitch Cafe forum link (http://www.stitchandbitchcafe.com) because it is a dead link (as of August 2019). Digging through Archive.org reveals that the url was always a redirect, to either http://www.sewfastseweasy.com/stitch_and_bitch/index.php (although this link is still live, it is usurped and points to an unrelated beauty site) or http://stitchandbitchcafe.sewfastseweasy.com/ (currently dead). Archived versions of both of these URLs point to the knitting forum. I felt that a non-up-to-date/long-dead forum link was not useful in the context of this article, but thought I should document it here in case someone else feels that an archived copy of the link should be added back.
- Heddles (talk) 22:04, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed forum url 

message: In various places, the article claims that SFSE was founded in 1991 and that it was founded in 1993.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  21:30, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article is self-contradictory on founding date