Wikiproject Gemology and Jewelry is a project aimed towards the development and expansion of articles related to gems, gemology, jewelry, and the trade in gems and jewelry.
The project generally considers any article related to gemology and jewelry to be within its scope. The scope is inclusive of cultural, historic, business, and scientific aspects of gemology and jewelry.
The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Gemology and Jewelry articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the WP Gemology and Jewelry project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.
Stilistic (talk) 21:27, 25 December 2018 (UTC) Love jewelry, gemstones, and minerals![reply]
puggo (talk) 15:33, 22 March 2019 (UTC) absolute beginner, but I like the subject enough to learn and share what I learn.[reply]
Ametrine9 (talk) 15:11, 15 September 2019 (UTC) - I love gemology and study it for fun.[reply]
Allaoii 19:04, 10 May 2024 (UTC) - I saw this on the directory and my brain told me to join, probably not going to contribute much, but oh well.[reply]
POV discussions that need to be addressed separately as a topic since they are/can be very contentious and referred to or shortly described in main article itself:
1) Role of internet in jewelry, diamonds and gems
2) How to identify color, color grading systems, color on an LCD screen (internet sales), role of (day-)light, lighting in jewelry store etc.
3) Kimberley process: yes/no functioning
4) Patriot act and Homeland Security affecting jewelry/gem industry (import the top ruby from Burma which has a boycott against it from the USA e.g. Other example: blood diamonds. Other example: diamond trade and Al Qaeda)
5) Internet diamond sales: buying against lab reports. Although lab report process is more standardized there is more to buying a diamond than a lab report or is there ?
6) Disclosure of treatments (and even disclosed, it doesn't always mean true, or legit)
7) Names: in many case a name of a location is later on given to a category of gemstones/pearls in order to "upgrade" gems with a similar/same chemistry but from different locations. Although this is often approved by the CIBJO the practice is highly contentious.
8) Copyright of designs and copytheft.
9) Different labs have different grading systems. Same lab has different graders. Dealers can shop around for best grade hence increasing sales price dramatically sometimes.