Talk:Gold-filled jewelry

message: This article originally had "gold-plated", with a hyphen. When I went to add the wiki link to the gold plated article I found it was "gold plated", without a hyphen. I think the no-hyphen spelling is correct but I'm far from an expert on this so I didn't mark the page as a minor edit and am hoping that wiser people than I can make the final call. Should it need a hyphen then there should probably be a complete search through the wikipedia to make all spellings consistent. Perhaps even if no-hyphen is agreed correct then a search for consistency should be done? Once again I'll leave the decision (and, the work, of course :-) to others.
Neilbaby1 22:18, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "Gold-plated" or "gold plated" and GF vs Gilding

message: The addition of the GoldFilledJewellery.png‎ illustration is very helpful to this article. However, in the USA, it is more common to see 10Kt, 12Kt, or 14Kt gold filled rather than 9Kt, 14Kt, and 18Kt as shown in this illustration. -RussNobbs (talk) 19:56, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Image

message: I've almost-always known that "gold-filled" is a misleading term that "the industry" uses as if trying to deceive people into thinking they are getting solid gold. Its real meaning (gold-plated) is common knowledge, but it is usually divulged on the side, by one's elders, as a warning not to be fooled. "Gold-filled" articles are NOT "filled" with gold; that's only what you think unless you have been informed that the words don't mean what they say. Attempting to justify the term, I could think of a "gold-filled" article as a thin gold surface or skin that has been "filled" with copper – but NO ONE in real life would EVER call it that, because NO ONE makes a hollow thin-walled gold object and then "fills" it with copper. "Gold-filled" articles start as copper pieces which are then plated (or coated or maybe "overlaid") with gold. By continuing to say "gold-filled", "the industry" mostly makes itself appear intentionally dishonest (and maybe gains a few sales). An honest term would be "gold-plated". But you keep reading and hearing "gold-filled" in ads, along with that other contentious trick word used by "the industry", "faux" ("faux pearl", "faux diamond"). In print, perhaps an important comma got lost – "gold-filled" articles could honestly be described as "gold, filled", but English puts the adjective first, so it would have to be "filled gold" - gold that is "filled" with something cheaper. But few vendors or marketers dare to STOP using the legal near-lie "gold-filled" because no one will make their competitors stop saying it. It's time for "the industry" or its regulators to do "the industry", its customers, and the language a favor by outlawing this term. (Citation is needed for controversy over the term "gold-filled"; otherwise I would put it directly into the article.) -A876 (talk) 19:29, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Why can't be it called Gold-coated jewellery? DRAGON BOOSTER  ★ 15:15, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Deceptive little term

message: The most important piece of information is missing. What is its thickness? We need to see a comparison with the thickness of other methods. 109.144.215.33 (talk) 22:08, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Thickness